Dimensions
156 x 234 x 32mm
Britain's Most Powerful Families.
In 'This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties' Christopher Lee tells the stories of some of the most powerful families to have shaped the history of the British Isles during the last thousand years; families that, through their wealth and ambition, were influential at the highest level and many of which were older and more powerful than the monarchy itself.
From king-makers, barons, and politicians, to soldiers, academics and advocates, Christopher Lee covers the Churchills, Godwines, Percys, Cecils, Cavendishes, Norfolks and several powerful Scottish and Irish clans. He also considers those who, in a wholly new arena, have continued the tradition of dynastic power through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first: the so-called "media barons".
'This Sceptred Isle: The Dynasties' is a fascinating survey of the fluctuating fortunes of a privileged elite; their loyalties tested and rewarded, honours bestowed and withdrawn, their successes and failures, their adulteries, scheming, intrigue, bloody battles, murderous plots and shocking executions - stories that reveal the true powers behind the throne.
