{"id":553,"date":"2008-10-05T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-05T18:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2008-10-05T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-05T18:23:09","slug":"excerpt-and-a-review-of-henry-virtuous-prince-david-starkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/excerpt-and-a-review-of-henry-virtuous-prince-david-starkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt and a review of Henry: Virtuous Prince David Starkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the excerpt, at the Times Online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Before he was a brutal dictator, he was a virtuous king: in a new biography, David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Henry and I go back a long way.<\/p>\n<p>My first essays at Cambridge were on his grandmother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. My doctoral dissertation was a study of his privy chamber and its staff. One of them, William Compton, has a part here.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/arts_and_entertainment\/books\/article4867535.ece\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full excerpt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And next is John Guy&#8217;s review of the book, also from The Times online:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here, ready for the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII&#8217;s accession, is the first volume of David Starkey&#8217;s two-volume life of the king, which has been eagerly awaited for at least 10 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the excerpt, at the Times Online: David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII Before he was a brutal dictator, he was a virtuous king: in a new biography, David Starkey offers a fresh vision of Henry VIII Henry and I go back a long way. My first&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/05\/excerpt-and-a-review-of-henry-virtuous-prince-david-starkey\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}