The Dwarves and the Onion Domes
Ferdinand Mount: Those Pushy Habsburgs, 24 September 2020
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
by Martyn Rady.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £30, May,978 0 241 33262 7 Show More
by Martyn Rady.
Allen Lane, 397 pp., £30, May,
“... 20 July 1554 and married Mary Tudor five days later at Winchester Cathedral, where he was declared king ‘de jure uxoris’, though Parliament refused to let him be crowned, to his considerable annoyance. If Mary had borne him a son, there would have been a Habsburg dynasty in England. Unfortunately, her ghastly gynaecological difficulties, which may have ... ”