The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

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The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I

With William Ætheling’s death Henry was left with only one legitimate child, a daughter, Matilda, who was married to the King of the Germans (and claimed the title “Empress”).Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD!

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I would like to thank the publisher for the opportunity to read "The White Ship" before it was published. Almost alone among the great families who rose to affluence in the sixteenth century the Spencers owed their wealth not to the favour of a monarch or to the acquisition of monastery lands but to their own skill as farmers and businessmen. Those familiar with Spencer’s other works will not find this surprising but the lack of emotive flow/narrative and insistence on presenting the material as, “Event A happened, then B and then C”; results in “The White Ship” failing to be ‘sticky’ with readers and is often skimmable especially with Spencer’s habit of running off on tangents. It was always going to be mostly about the aristocracy (of which the author is a part) but the extent is annoying as it must have oversimplified the events. I fell down a Titanic rabbit hole back in the spring and so I’m used to reading about agonizingly slow ship wrecks.A confusing, bloody but riveting read if you can keep track of who's who in this historical Game of Thrones scenario. The fourth son of William the Conqueror, Henry had spent his youth seemingly destined for a life of highborn obscurity.

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Spencer received an apology from Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, in late 2020 for the unethical practices used by BBC staff to gain his sister's consent to be interviewed in November 1995 for the corporation's Panorama television programme. By the time the White Ship took to sea, the majority of those on board were much the worse for wear, including the helmsman. Upon fulfilling her duties as a queen in producing an heir Henry's wife retires from bedroom duty and lives separately from the king. In his eulogy he rebuked both Britain's royal family and the press for their treatment of his sister.In what was a drums-and-trumpets history of England, there was room for the melancholy of this terrible tale. And since so many names were same or similar, it could be a little hard to follow - which has been my husband's complaint for years about my Tudor stories! Queen of Halloween dresses up as a PEACOCK with 10-person entourage while her husband rolls up as an EGG. Giles Richardson and Holger Shuhmann carried out a one-hour dive, restricting themselves to photographing the site because they were not permitted to remove any finds. Shani Louk's brother reveals 'our whole family crashed' when they saw her being paraded by Hamas 'spitting.

The White Ship (Paperback) - Charles Spencer The White Ship (Paperback) - Charles Spencer

Or should popular historians not also seek to analyse sources and events (as academic historians do)? He was said to have remarked that the English were naturally inferior to the Normans and that he would bend their necks to the plough and treat them like beasts of burthen. But, in most recently writing about the White Ship, I have been transported back a further half a millennium to a uniquely catastrophic loss at sea – one that led to quite extraordinary bloodshed on land. The White Ship” is a well-conceived book in theory but completely misses its target and rather offers a slow text lacking cohesive strands making it one of Spencer’s weaker works (the worst one, in my opinion).At this stage, Spencer began writing a series of books dealing with the estate itself and with his family history, beginning with an account of his ancestral home, Althorp: the Story of an English House, published in 1998. Following what could be considered the final battle of Henry's reign that would give him and England a lasting peace tragedy struck on the White Ship. His team will use ground-penetrating radar in the hope of being able to see the parts of the vessel which are now embedded beneath the sea bed. The expected protests and battles by the older brother soon follow but Henry has a more popular following and manages to hang on to the throne though his grasp is frequently challenged. It was carrying royal heir William Aethling and many other members of the Anglo-Norman nobility when it sank after hitting the notorious Quillebœuf Rock on November 25, 1120.