Charles Spencer
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November 2019
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
8 editions
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2020
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A Very Private School: A Memoir
8 editions
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2024
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
14 editions
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2014
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To Catch a King: Charles II's Great Escape
9 editions
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2017
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Blenheim: Battle for Europe, How Two Men Stopped The French Conquest Of Europe
17 editions
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2004
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Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
7 editions
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2007
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The Spencer Family
5 editions
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1999
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Althorp: The Story of an English House
11 editions
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1998
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Impressions of Althorp: Thoughts on My Spencer Heritage
2 editions
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2012
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The White Ship / To Catch A King / Killers of the King
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“The spreading influence of the Church had affected the domestic arrangements of all, including priests and princes, setting bastard stock in a separate, inferior category to children born in wedlock.”
― The White Ship: The gripping Sunday Times bestselling book about the Anarchy in medieval England
― The White Ship: The gripping Sunday Times bestselling book about the Anarchy in medieval England
“All these experiences we have through our days make us who we are: hardy, tough, resilient, determined,” while recognizing they’ve also left us “wary, untrusting and emotionally retarded/unstable.”
― A Very Private School: A Memoir
― A Very Private School: A Memoir
“two defenses: First, that they were only doing the same as everyone else from their social background; and, second, that they thought their sons would become all the stronger, for having survived their ordeal.”
― A Very Private School: A Memoir
― A Very Private School: A Memoir
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