David Starkey

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Quoted regarding how the shower of lovely clothes Anne Boleyn had lavished on Elizabeth suddenly dried up after Anne's execution, and also quoted on Mary being 'tenderhearted to excess when issues of principle were not involved.'

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Tom Holland references David Starkey's 'great book on the young Elizabeth' when describing the luxuriously appointed birthing chamber at Greenwich Palace as 'a cross between a chapel and a luxuriously padded cell.'