The Cecils of Hatfield House,: An English Ruling Family

By David Cecil

Book Overview

Lord David Cecil's history of his family from the time of Elizabeth 1 to the personally recalled events when the family again rose to prominence in the late Victorian and Edwardian period. 320 pages,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395171202
• ISBN13: 9780395171202
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Firt-rate dynastic history

Written "from the inside" by the younger son of the 4th marquess of Salisbury, who grew up within the walls where Elizabeth I and her brother, Edward VI, played as children; the Queen gave the property to her first chief minister, William Lord Burghley, who passed it on to her second chief minister, Robert Burghley, 1st earl of Salisbury. This absorbing dynastic biography should be read (like Altschul's book on the Clares) as a case study on the the changeable fortunes of a powerful noble family.