Andro Linklater

Charming, cold and unreliable

When you consider what a bloody mess the Houses of Lancaster and York made of the business, it is easy to see why, since the death of Edward the Confessor, the English have preferred to be ruled by foreigners.

  • The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that shaped Britain

    Allan Massie

    Cape, pp. 370

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