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Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. In the twentieth century this trend for royals to father illegitimate children continued, but the parentage, while highly probable, has not been officially recognised. This book - split into four sections: Tudor, Stuart, Henoverian and, perhaps most fascinating, Royal Loose Ends - is a genuinely fresh approach to British kings and queens, examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children.
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Roger Powell has been a professional genealogist for over 40 years. He was until his recent retirement a senior editor at Burke's Peerage and Gentry and Director of Debretts Ancestory Research. He was also a research assitant at the Royal College of Heralds. He is also related to the Duke of Monmouth, another bastard son of Charles II. He lives in Northamptonshire.Peter Beauclerk-Dewar is a direct decendent of the bastard offspring of Charles II and Nell Gwyn. He is a heraldic consultant to Christies, has previously been an editor for Burke's Peerage & Gentry, and is a fellow of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries. He also a JP and a trustee of the Institute of Heraldic & Genealogical Studies at the University of Kent. He lives in London.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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Royal love children are a great subject. Here since the time of Edward IV the life of the royal love children is explored. Some of these children had a real political significance or played a respected role at the royal court, some were just a bloody nuisance. Today many name of the peerage and members of the Royal Family are descendants of the these royal bastards or nicer called natural children.
This excellent books deal with the recognized bastards and those were the situation is not as clear cut. But even in the first category not all is so easy: some even recognized royal bastards might not be the off-spring of the king. On each of the royal love children one is finding a little biography. This part I think it is ok, but not particularly interesting. Far better is the part on those alleged royal children. Here it seems that the author has done his own research and this is pretty interesting to read.
Of course, one learns a lot about the royal mistresses too.
All in all, a great book especially if one starts to look for the first time into the matter of royal bastards. I enjoyed it very much.
This excellent books deal with the recognized bastards and those were the situation is not as clear cut. But even in the first category not all is so easy: some even recognized royal bastards might not be the off-spring of the king. On each of the royal love children one is finding a little biography. This part I think it is ok, but not particularly interesting. Far better is the part on those alleged royal children. Here it seems that the author has done his own research and this is pretty interesting to read.
Of course, one learns a lot about the royal mistresses too.
All in all, a great book especially if one starts to look for the first time into the matter of royal bastards. I enjoyed it very much.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Seeing as this was first published by "burkes peerage" i wasnt expecting this to be an in-depth examination of the illegitimate children of our royal family- but i wasnt expecting it to read like an extract from Burkes peerage either-! Its not so much a book as a series of enclyclopedia articles strung together- and in DESPERATE need of a proof reader, some of the sentences seem to end at bizzare junctures and you aren't sure exactly who is being referred to at a number of points in the book as he leaps from person to person seemingly at random and then expects you to know which of the various charecters he is referring to as "father", "him", "she" etc later on. It is quite interesting to be fair, and its certainly well researched, but in the hands of a better writer this could have been an excellent book
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I do wish the title had been a bit more discreet. Also, I did not know this publication is almost a continuation of the previous years. I now want to get the book starting with the Norman conquest, going up to the 1400s. The authors of this book go into great detail, as much as possible, about the children, that is known, and gives us insight on how it is to live "at court" but now be "part of court". Shame, really, when it is not the child's fault. Imagine how England would have been ruled if Henry Fitzroy had been a legal and lawful heir, and could inherit the throne. How many people would have not been executed? Or would he have gone further if he had lived, and did more devastation in his father's footsteps? Ah, history.
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