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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1876159.Monarchy_England_and_Her_Rulers_from_the_Tudors_to_the_Windsors?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1189613447m/1876159.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1876159.Monarchy_England_and_Her_Rulers_from_the_Tudors_to_the_Windsors?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/78035.David_Starkey">David Starkey</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27427660?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>First off, this was an audio book, which precludes my usual rant about sources and the importance of citations. <br/> <br/>That said. <br/> <br/>CITE CITE CITE <br/> <br/>Dr. Galgano would be proud. <br/> <br/>Back to the book. When I realized it was read by the author, I did worry a bit. David Starkey comes across vocally as a pompous asshat. Now, admittedly that might be because he's british...but...he does come off rather snottily though at times. So when I heard his voice come through my lime green headphones...I shook a bit (I love elipses...don't you). But it wasn't bad. David is a bit melodramatic for my taste (it's like he can here the BBC background music playing impressively behind him). But he also knows his stuff. If I knew as much as he did, I would prolly be (more of) a pompous asshat too. <br/> <br/>And also, how much more do I need to know about the british monarchy...not to be blunt, but I know a good bit. So I wondered if this would just be a rehash of everything I know already. (OMIGOSH, Henry married SIX wives--I had no idea.) Instead this was a really interesting and informative dissection of how the monarchy evolved. How the powers grew and then were scaled back. I learned a lot. Rather than the focus being on the personal lives of the monarch, the whole story was the monarchal power and the persons who wielded it. Many histories tend to be narrowly focused on one time period, whereas this one really explored and explained the role of monarchy over a long stretch of time. <br/> <br/>Highly recommend. <br/> <br/>Oh, and I'm sure David has citations for everything. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/683792?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>