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A review by feifeii
The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
informative
fast-paced
4.0
A great pleasure to indulge myself into the history of the Tudor with this book.
Borman did a great job in bringing together the historic facts and detail. I enjoyed very much her narrative style by retelling the rise and fall of the Tudor dynasty in chronological order while intervening the minute details of their public and private life which I didn’t think of or knew about before, like what kind of food the royal usually had in a day and how much calories they usually consumed, the ceremony for meal, dressing and undressing every day, the process of labouring and how appalling the medical practices back then, the ridiculously expensive wardrobe of the monarchs as well as their bowel.
I am especially fascinated by the part of Elizabeth I. I was often intrigued by the infamous King Henry VIII and his wives, as often portrayed and focused in the modern time. Yet the feminine ideal of Elizabeth I, the struggle of her role as a woman and a female monarch and the torment she therefore suffered was so well and impressively expressed and presented in here.
I look forward to reading other books by Borman after this.
Borman did a great job in bringing together the historic facts and detail. I enjoyed very much her narrative style by retelling the rise and fall of the Tudor dynasty in chronological order while intervening the minute details of their public and private life which I didn’t think of or knew about before, like what kind of food the royal usually had in a day and how much calories they usually consumed, the ceremony for meal, dressing and undressing every day, the process of labouring and how appalling the medical practices back then, the ridiculously expensive wardrobe of the monarchs as well as their bowel.
I am especially fascinated by the part of Elizabeth I. I was often intrigued by the infamous King Henry VIII and his wives, as often portrayed and focused in the modern time. Yet the feminine ideal of Elizabeth I, the struggle of her role as a woman and a female monarch and the torment she therefore suffered was so well and impressively expressed and presented in here.
I look forward to reading other books by Borman after this.