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Charles Brandon: Henry VIII’s Closest Friend
by Steven Gunn.
Amberley, 304 pp., £20, October 2015,978 1 4456 4184 3 Show More
by Steven Gunn.
Amberley, 304 pp., £20, October 2015,
“... the king again. When they next appeared in the lists, it was as a team of two, wearing identical silver beards. Until the birth of Prince Edward in 1537, Henry did not have a legitimate male heir, so the children of his two sisters were potential successors. Charles and la reine blanche had two daughters, a son called Henry, who died, and then another ... ”