Reviews for Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy

The average rating for Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-12-05 00:00:00 Lavern Mcdilda A good readable resource. The prose is not dull, and each ruler seems to be dealt with fairly. Perhaps this book’s greatest flaw is that monarchy comes across as the most awesome thing on the face of the earth. There is some criticism but at no time is there a feeling that living under any of the monarchs would be a bad thing. Still it is full of historic information and brings up some good points about monarchs who may have gotten so bad raps.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-07 00:00:00 Paul Michaels Very short descriptions, but I loved the lists of dates in the back and family tree. I was mostly sad how short it was on descriptions of first few 500 years of the kings. Additional pre-reading required otherwise thre is a possibility of being lost in all of the cities, kingdoms and so forth.