Status Updates From Kings and Queens (Collins Gem)

This is very enlightening, but unfortunately it offers only some interesting facts of the British monarchs. Still a very interesting read.

This is so interesting, and every page is very informative. I just simply wish there were larger segments in regard to certain kings. I just simply love this kind of History.

After a visit to London I'm actually a sucker for the British monarchy. I can't help it, I just am like that

"We are not amused."

Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr

Allegedly, the longbow is a Welsh invention. Is that so?

Thomas Becket becomes St Thomas, whose shrine is the pilgrims' destination in the Canterbury Tales. Cool!

Harthacanute, King from 1035 to 1042, "died of 'a horrible convulsion' while attending a wedding". Couldn't be more real life Game of Thrones ^^

The title "Prince of Wales" exists since 1282!

Macbeth (1040-1057), apparantly unfairly treated by Shakespeare.

Some more criticism (really sorry about that...), but why are not all the pictures labeled? I mean, who recognizes an aureus (gold coin) struck under the reign of Hadrian, apart from nerds like me (and this, obviously, is a book for everyone, not just nerds)? What does a picture help, without the reader knowing what it depicts?

Oh dear. Maybe, I should just skip the Roman part the next time I read sth similar... No, the Roman Empire wasn't separated by Constantine (but Diocletian). And why did they add, for Claudius and Vespasian (p. 16), the dates they lived (contrary to the dates they ruled, as usual)? For the other emperors mentioned (pp. 18-19), they did add the dates they ruled. And why did they choose a portait of Augustus (p. 17)? I