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In the third drily hilarious volume of A Comic History Of England, we move forward to the thirteenth century, when a succession of Edwards and Henrys gain the throne and immediately use it to steal everything they can from the population, in order to fund attempts to conquer France (or pay their debts from conquering England). Along the way we get the fabled Black Prince, one of the greatest battles in English history, a queen far more powerful than her king or sons, and a consideration of the manners and condition of the English period up to this point in the history.

Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to...

Felipe IV de Austria, llamado el Grande o Rey Planeta fue el rey de España hasta su muerte en diciembre de 1640. Su reinado de 44 años y 170 días fue el más largo de la casa de Austria. Al igual que su padre, cedió los asuntos de Estado a validos, entre los que destacó Gaspar de Guzmán, conde Luque de Olivares, quien realizó una enérgica política exterior que buscaba mantener la hegemonía española en Europa.