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Behind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama.
Nothing drove Henry VIII, England's wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord.
Henry fathered four living children, each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred by jealously, mutual distrust, sibling rivalry, even hatred. Possessed of quick wits and strong wills, their characters were defined partly by the educations they received, and partly by events over which they had no control.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, although recognized as the king's son, could never forget his illegitimacy. Edward died while still in his teens, desperately plotting to exclude his half-sisters from the throne. Mary's world was shattered by her mother's divorce and her own unhappy marriage. Elizabeth was the most successful, but also the luckiest. Even so, she lived with the knowledge that her father had ordered her mother's execution, was often in fear of her own life, and could never marry
the one man she truly loved.
Henry's children idolized their father, even if they differed radically over how to perpetuate his legacy. To tell their stories, John Guy returns to the archives, drawing on a vast array of contemporary records, personal letters, and first-hand accounts.
- Sales Rank: #213318 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-25
- Released on: 2013-04-25
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Henry VIII’s succession problems are the canvas for this collective portraiture of his four children who lived long enough to become pawns in the family chess game. Guy views the contests as the daughters and sons would have experienced them, through the entourages and educations that the king ordained for them, crowned by the caprices of royal favors granted or withdrawn. Enumerating governesses, tutors, and factotums, Guy connects their appointments and dismissals to wider political alignments that shifted according to Henry’s well-chronicled quest for a male heir. A female successor was the last thing Henry wanted, a hope that foundered on his first daughter’s tenacity in holding her place in the line of succession (see Mary Tudor, by Anna Whitelock, 2010), the teenage deaths of Henry Fitzroy and Edward VI, and the perilous survival of Elizabeth. Enhancing Guy’s appeal is his emphasis on the personal relationships among these half siblings. Marked by a mixture of real and feigned affections, the dynastic dynamics of Henry’s heirs will drive Guy’s fluidly styled work straight into the hands of even veteran Tudor readers. --Gilbert Taylor
Review
"[T]his book is John Guy for the masses. ... [T]his is a short, furtive work, written in a plaintive, accessible style, which functions as a sort of primer on the story of Henry VIII's three children who followed him on the throne... Indeed, this work has wide-ranging appeal for all manner of readers, whether casual or scholarly." --Sixteenth-Century Journal
"[John Guy's] storytelling is well paced, his accounts of gorgeous stuff are rich, and his narratives are lyrical enough to charm the general reader. Simultaneously Guy's intimate knowledge of English sources and sharp eye for telling details have enabled him to hit some high notes for scholars." --Journal of Modern History
About the Author
John Guy is a Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Tudor England, The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction, A Daughter's Love: Thomas and Margaret More, Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim: A 900-Year-Old Story Retold and 'My Heart is My Own': the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, which won the Whitbread Biography Award, Marsh Biography Award, and was a Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle (USA) Biography/Autobiography of the Year Award. A regular contributor to BBC radio and television, he also writes and reviews for national newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times and The Literary Review.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The four children of Henry VIII is a short but fact filled chronicle of the troubled Tudor Dynasty as described by Dr. John Guy
By C. M Mills
Your humble reviewer had just finished John Guy's magnificent Elizabeth I biography . My myopic eye then caught this title on his Amazon author's page. The book is only 280 pages but Guy has the rare ability to tell a good story with conciseness and literary skill. This would be an excellent primer for students who are neophytes in Tudor history. The four children covered are:
1. Mary Queen of England from 1553-58. She was the daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon a native of Spain and a devout Roman Catholic.
Henry left Mary uncertain as to whether she or her bastard half-brother Henry Fitzroy would inherit Henry's crown. She did and died after a short and unsuccessful reign. She is often called Bloody Mary because of her approving the burning of Protestants a the stake. She attempted to restore Roman Catholicism to England as the official faith but failed in her efforts.
2. Henry Fitzroy-He was Henry's son by Bessie Blount. He was well educated but enjoyed more manly blood sports. He never inherited the crown.
3. Edward VI who reigned as King of England from 1547-53 was the son of Henry and Jane Seymour who died giving birth to the sickly prince.
4,. Elizabeth began her famous reign in 1558 on the death of her half-sister Mary. She was a great queen and a staunch Protestant. The Elizabethan age is named for her. It was the age of Shakespeare and the Spanish Armada being defeated and the expansion of the empire.
A golden age in British history.
The book is good on telling us about the education of the four children and outlining the major events in their lives and reigns. Good stuff!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
"Some are born great..."
By FictionFan
I first encountered John Guy through his wonderful biography of Thomas Becket and I give him the credit for re-awakening my interest in reading history after a lengthy gap. As well as being a first-rate historian, he has the true skill of the storyteller, managing to turn his thorough and extensive research into an accessible and enjoyable read for the non-academic. In this book he tackles the subject of Henry VIII's struggle to produce an heir who could ensure the continuance of his dynasty. This is very much a personal history of the children, though because of their positions as potential heirs, there is also much about the politics of the time, particularly the religious machinations of this divided family.
Guy goes into considerable depth about the children's early years telling us who was given charge of their upbringing and education. He describes the differences in education of the males, Edward and Henry Fitzroy, to the females, Mary and Elizabeth; showing that the boys were trained in those skills which were deemed necessary in a king, such as the ability to give public speeches, while the girls were restricted to moral and religious works, on the basis laid down by the scholar Vives that a woman should hear and speak only 'what pertains to the fear of God'. However, he also produces some evidence to show that the girls' friends and supporters may have found ways to supplement these restrictions.
Guy also shows Henry's inconsistent treatment of his children, first humiliating Mary by raising the prospect of the illegitimate Fitzroy as heir, then by making her play second fiddle to Elizabeth during Anne Boleyn's short reign. The declaration of both his daughters as illegitimate, his treatment of their mothers and the way he brought them in and out of favour depending on who was Queen at the time impacted heavily on both, as did his will declaring that they could only marry with the agreement of the counsellors he appointed before his death. But with the early death of Fitzroy, Henry was eventually forced to accept the rights of both his daughters to be in the line of succession in the event that Edward should die childless.
Although most of the book is about the children's early years, Guy finishes with a fairly quick romp through each reign, again concentrating more on the personal than the political except where they were intertwined. He points out that Henry's tragedy remains that, for all his efforts to secure his dynasty, none of his children produced heirs, so that on the death of Elizabeth in 1603 the Tudor era came to an end.
As always with Guy's books, this one is very well written and a pleasure to read. There may not be much new here but the format Guy has chosen lets us see the family dynamics more than biographies of the individuals usually do. I felt the adult years were somewhat rushed and really only there to take the book to a conclusion, and I felt Guy surprisingly let Elizabeth off the hook very easily on the subject of the suppression of the Catholics during her reign (for more of which I recommend John Cooper's biography of Walsingham, The Queen's Agent). But I enjoyed the detailed look at the childhood of these major figures in English history and heartily recommend this book to anyone interested in the Tudor period.
NB This book was provided for review by the publisher via NetGalley.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Way too slim a volume for the intention stated by the title
By J. Mullally
1-Henry is believed to have far more than the 4 children listed and discussed, so the work is necessarily going to be incomplete;
2-How can you possibly do justice to this topic in less than 200 pages, especially in reference to Mary and Elizabeth? Therefore, the work is also superficial.
3-The book of the same title by Alison Weir, published in 1996 and by Ballantine Books in 2008 is more meaty; in this case, the slant is what happens AFTER Henry dies and so there is nothing about Henry Fitzroy. The 4th child in question in this book is the 9-day queen Lady Jane Grey, Henry's grand-niece through his younger sister Mary and best friend Charles Brandon. She was groomed by her parents to marry her cousin Edward and become queen in that way, and was brought to court after Henry's death in order to seemingly better ready her for her seeming future role as Edward's queen. To me this book was much more interesting because it had a clear structure and narrative intent and was not merely a 'list' with a few interesting facts. It was even suspenseful, though I already knew the history.
4-It spends a lot of time on the court personalities, eclipsing the children themselves. While this is not surprising given the young ages at which each of the three monarchs gained the throne/the fact that two were women, it becomes very tedious after a time.
Finally, he is so dismissive of his subjects, for example, discounting contemporary praise of their intellects. One wonders how well his own scholarship would pass muster by comparison with the rigorous education royal children underwent at that period of time.
Overall, this is stolid, workmanlike, but with obvious bias and rather dry. I didn't expect something as spicy and colorful as The Tudors, but I certainly would expect a more vivid depiction of the English Renaissance world and more than 20 pages on Elizabeth's reign, which lasted about 45 years.
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