![]() Among the beautiful people revelling on deck was William Aetheling, grandson of William the Conqueror and sole legitimate son of Henry I. ![]() LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for. The narrative opens in 1120 with a drunken party aboard a white ship – the White Ship. All about The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England by Dan Jones. As I sometimes stop mid-paragraph to daydream around a subject, I was grateful to be kept on track by a text that is simple and direct, without leaving me feeling patronised. Jones avoids this with a combination of gripping storytelling and pin-sharp clarity. The risk with a long dynastic history is that it becomes just one damn thing after another, and the reader gets lost in a snowstorm of names and events. Jones covers an enormous amount of ground: eight generations of kings and queens from 1120 to 1399. We both read into the night, but I was the one reading passages out loud. Bed time, back to back: him reading George R R Martin’s hugely popular Game of Thrones fantasy fiction me reading Dan Jones’s The Plantagenets. It has been a week of competitive reading in the de Lisle household. ![]()
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