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While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII. With Pierre comes his lovely bride, Catherine Gordon, a granddaughter of James I of Scotland. But, in the crucial battle, Pierre falters when he sees that the stolid English really prefer Tudor stability to York dash...
...drawings that illustrate these anecdotes and parodies come just as close to the mark as the architectural drawings which form the backbone of the book. The illustration of one of the innumerable civic ceremonies graced by Edward VII as Prince of Wales says just about all there is to be said about such aspects of British municipal life, and the family group at Fidget Priory on Christmas 1907 is the last word on the English country house party in its heyday...
...moment, Queen Eleanor's state of mind made little difference to pious Louis VII; he went right on saying his prayers. But in time the sense of incompatibility grew on Louis too; he agreed to have their marriage annulled-on the ground that they were fourth cousins and were not rightly wed in the first place. Before the year (1152) was out, Eleanor conferred her person and her provinces, which covered a third of France, on hot-blooded Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and King Louis' great enemy...
...Barons Dress. When Eleanor left Louis to his orisons, she was 30, and knew more of life than most women twice her age. Married at 15, she had gone with Louis VII on the Second Crusade and on tours of their domains, had given him two daughters and (so legends tell) some reason to doubt that at least one of them was his. After the second daughter, Louis, who still had no heir, was glad...
...present editor took over, at 23, he got a chance to show his mettle when Queen Victoria died. Only twelve hours after the bells of St. Paul's tolled the news, the News appeared with a special edition about the late Queen and the new King Edward VII. Two weeks later, Ingram stationed 24 artists along the funeral route, fitted their drawings together in a 48-page panorama...