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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. Dustcover has some wear and disclouration due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There was no time in his conscious early life therefore when hewas not king of England. He had had none of the wide and varied experience that Henry IV Edward IV Richard III even that Henry V or Henry VII gained as the scions of great English aristocratic houses; and he had never been able to observe another king of England at work. Secondly Henry VI personally undertook the cares of kingship and brought his minority effectively to an end at an earlier age than did all other young English kings after 1066. Henry III had begun his personal rule in 1227 at the age of nineteen King Edward III when he was eighteen; and Richard II much as he strove to avoid it lived under conciliar control until he was well-nigh twenty years of age. By contrast Henry VI was just sixteen years old in November 1437 when he expressly asserted his royal prerogatives and virtually declared his minority ended; indeed he had begun to take a positive part in government at least a year before that. Whatever the supposed capabilities of teenagers then or now by any standard this was a very youthful introduction to effective kingship. Henry too was the only English king to be acknowledged by French authorities as rightfully king (OS)