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Alison Weir _ The Wars of the Roses
Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.
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Alison Weir _ The Wars of the Roses
Virgil had no difficulty in believing that God has visited the sins of Henry IV upon his descendant, Henry VI, yet he did not explain how this was to be reconciled with the triumphant career of Henry V.
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Alison Weir _ The Wars of the Roses
Tudor historians were fond of reminding their readers of the horrors of the Wars of the Roses, recounting how the realm had been plunged into the vicious civil war over a disputed crown that lasted more than thirty years.
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Alison Weir _ Against Our Better Judgment:
Islamic lands did not emigrate willingly to Israel." In order "to force them to leave," Giladi writes, "Jews killed Jews." He goes on to say that in an effort "to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands, Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace initiatives from their Arab neighbors."{136}
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Alison Weir _ Queen Isabella: Treachery,
but he frequently drank too much, and when he was inebriated would indiscriminately "let out his secret thoughts and quarrel with bystanders for feeble causes."47
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Alison Weir _ Henry VIII: The King and His
Henry VIII owned more than eight hundred carpets,"
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Alison Weir _ The Life of Elizabeth I
between Scylla and Charybdis,
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Alison Weir _ Against Our Better Judgment:
Former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson also opposed Zionism. Acheson's biographer writes that Acheson "worried that the West would pay a high price for Israel." Another author, John Mulhall, records Acheson's warning of the danger for U.S. interests: "...to transform {Palestine} into a Jewish State capable of receiving a million or more immigrants would vastly exacerbate the political problem and imperil not only American but all Western interests in the Near East."{190}
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Alison Weir _ The Life of Elizabeth I
One French ambassador, having witnessed the royal temper, confided, 'When I see her enraged against any person whatever, I wish myself in Calcutta, fearing her anger like death
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Alison Weir _ The Six Wives of Henry VIII
a royal bride could come to enjoy considerable power and influence, as did both Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. Yet such status and power emanated solely from her husband. She enjoyed no freedoms but those he permitted her. Without him, she was nothing. Queens
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Alison Weir _ The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife?' asked Henry VIII in his treatise A Defence of the Seven Sacraments; 'for not only is he bound to love her, but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain, when God who gave shall demand His own again.' Marriage
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Alison Weir _ The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Men, however, were encouraged to sow their wild oats, but a woman who did so became a social outcast and ruined her chances of making a good marriage.
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