The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England

By Clifford Brewer

Book Overview

Many Kings and Queens of England suffered extraordinary deaths. Handsome and virile in his youth, a rare medical condition turned Henry VIII into a bloated and grotesque old man, The dashing and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0902920995
• ISBN13: 9780902920996
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Abson Books (London)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great and fascinating read

I bought this book years ago at Heathrow Airport and devoured it on the flight back to New York. It's the only time I haven't been bored on that 7 hour trip. If you love history, especially English royalty, you will enjoy this. It's well written and while some of the conclusions may be speculative there is enough information on each death to hazard a few guesses on your own. You don't need any medical knowledge to throughly enjoy this book.

Excellent Book if you want to know more about illnesses people died of

This is a great book to read if you are into history and always wondered about the vague descriptions given in history books as to why people died in olden times. It is pure speculation, taking the symptoms that some historian wrote hundreds of years ago, and trying to figure out what the person really died of. The book will still leave you wanting more information but the only thing to work with is what someone way back when wrote and they hardly had the ability to properly disgnose an illness. This book has many good plausible reasons for their deaths.

Very good read

Excellent. Interesting, well-written, fascinating. And I'm not even a doctor.

A top notch read

A fantastic book full of gory facts. No medical knowledge needed.