Escucha y lee

Descubre un mundo infinito de historias

  • Lee y escucha todo lo que quieras
  • Más de 900 000 títulos
  • Títulos exclusivos + Storytel Originals
  • 7 días de prueba gratis, luego $169 MXN al mes
  • Cancela cuando quieras
Suscríbete ahora
Copy of Device Banner Block 894x1036 3

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

14 Calificaciones

3.8

Duración
9H 41min
Idioma
Inglés
Format
Categoría

Biografía

Henry Stuart’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale. Shadowed by the gravity of the Thirty Years’ War and the huge changes taking place across Europe in seventeenth-century society, economy, politics and empire, his life was visually and verbally gorgeous. NOW THE SUBJECT OF BBC2 DOCUMENTARY The Best King We Never Had Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales was once the hope of Britain. Eldest son to James VI of Scotland, James I of England, Henry was the epitome of heroic Renaissance princely virtue, his life set against a period about as rich and momentous as any.

Educated to rule, Henry was interested in everything. His court was awash with leading artists, musicians, writers and composers such as Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones. He founded a royal art collection of European breadth, amassed a vast collection of priceless books, led grand renovations of royal palaces and mounted operatic, highly politicised masques.

But his ambitions were even greater. He embraced cutting-edge science, funded telescopes and automata, was patron of the NorthWest Passage Company and wanted to sail through the barriers of the known world to explore new continents. He reviewed and modernised Britain’s naval and military capacity and in his advocacy for the colonisation of North America he helped to transform the world.

At his death aged only eighteen, and considering himself to be as much a European as British, he was preparing to stake his claim to be the next leader of Protestant Christendom in the struggle to resist a resurgent militant Catholicism.

In this rich and lively book, Sarah Fraser seeks to restore Henry to his place in history. Set against the bloody traumas of the Thirty Years’ War, the writing of the King James Bible, the Gunpowder Plot and the dark tragedies pouring from Shakespeare’s quill, Henry’s life is the last great forgotten Jacobean tale: the story of a man who, had he lived, might have saved Britain from King Charles I, his spaniels and the Civil War with its appalling loss of life his misrule engendered.

© 2017 William Collins (Audiolibro): 9780008182007

Fecha de lanzamiento

Audiolibro: 4 de mayo de 2017

Otros también disfrutaron...

  1. Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II Geoffrey Parker
  2. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V Geoffrey Parker
  3. Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior Catherine Hanley
  4. The Turbulent Crown: The Story of the Tudor Queens Roland Hui
  5. Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter: A Biography of Princess Louise Lucinda Hawksley
  6. Blood Will Tell: A Medical Explanation of the Tyranny of Henry VIII Kyra Cornelius Kramer
  7. To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape Charles Spencer
  8. The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians Janice Hadlow
  9. Monarchy: England and her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors David Starkey
  10. Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow Lucy Worsley
  11. Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen John Hardman
  12. Richard III: The Self-Made King Michael Hicks
  13. Elizabeth I Abigail Archer
  14. Josephine: A Life of the Empress Carolly Erickson
  15. The Romanovs: 1613-1918 Simon Sebag Montefiore
  16. Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In John Guy
  17. The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses Theo Aronson
  18. Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise Melanie Clegg
  19. Great Harry: A Biography of Henry VIII Carolly Erickson
  20. Great Ladies: The Forgotten Witnesses to the Lives of Tudor Queens Sylvia Barbara Soberton
  21. Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe John Julius Norwich
  22. Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England Thomas Penn
  23. Charlemagne Johannes Fried
  24. Son of York Amy Licence
  25. George V: Never a Dull Moment Jane Ridley
  26. Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy A.N. Wilson
  27. Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II Linda Porter
  28. Francis I: The Maker of Modern France Leonie Frieda

Explora nuevos mundos

  • Más de 900,000 títulos

  • Modo sin conexión

  • Kids Mode

  • Cancela en cualquier momento

¡Más popular!
Oferta por tiempo limitado

Ilimitado

Nada mejor que un audiolibro para esta temporada.

$169 /mes
  • 1 cuenta

  • Acceso ilimitado

  • Escucha y lee los títulos que quieras

  • Modo sin conexión + Kids Mode

  • Cancela en cualquier momento

Pruébalo ahora

Ilimitado Anual

Escucha y lee sin límites a un mejor precio.

$1190 /año
7 días gratis
Ahorra 40%
  • 1 cuenta

  • Acceso ilimitado

  • Escucha y lee los títulos que quieras

  • Modo sin conexión + Kids Mode

  • Cancela en cualquier momento

Pruébalo ahora

Familiar

Perfecto para compartir historias con toda la familia.

Desde $259 /mes
7 días gratis
  • 4-6 cuentas

  • 100 horas/mes para cada cuenta

  • Acceso a todo el catálogo

  • Modo sin conexión + Kids Mode

  • Cancela en cualquier momento

4 cuentas

$259 /mes
Pruébalo ahora