Sure, the Windsors know how to throw a wedding, put on a
concert and stage a once in a lifetime flotilla down the Thames, but lecturer,
archaeologist, curator and some-time author, Kevin Flude, is gunning for the
royals of the past as the most interesting, revolutionary and scandalous
creatures to grace the Kingdom’s throne.
The Charles, Camilla, Diana love-triangle was nothing
compared with the underhand tactics employed by the incestuous Roman Emperors
and Guy Fawkes’ crew were tame when once you
In his book Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Flude has presented
bite-sized dinner conversation soundbites about everyone who’s anyone in
British monarchical history.
Despite Flude’s protestations in the foreward, there is a
reason the Henry VIII’s, Elizabeth I’s and Boudiccea’s of British history stood
out and made it into our school text books, we’re a nation of such rich,
ancient and muddled history that we’ve only the time and the inclination to
hone in on the most sensational of monarchs.
You need to have murdered a family member or gone out in a
particularly brutal and/or heroic fashion to make it into a 21st
century history lesson and sadly, the noble, sensible brutes who built what we
now know as the United
Kingdom, from the ground up, don’t make for
a particularly gripping read.
That said, the Stewarts ARE quite underrated.
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