The Most Amazing Royal Places in Britain - Reader's Digest

This guidebook takes you on a round- Britain tour of the places that have made royal history. These are the castles, abbeys, stately homes and grand estates of Britain's kings and queens. But they are also the battlefields, docks, caves, forests, tombs and graves - places where fortunes were made, treaties signed, war declared, battles fought and lives lost, and where Britain's history was made. Nine chapters cover Britain from Cornwall to the Scottish islands. There is Leeds Castle in Kent, retreat of medieval queens; the Banqueting house in London, used by James I as a drinking den and by Charles II to hold lotteries; the Tweed Walk near Neidpath Castle in Peebles, beloved of Mary, Queen of Scots; Coombe Hill in Buckinghamshire where the sons of the Celtic King Cunobelinus were killed; and Broadlands in Hampshire where the Queen and Prince Philip spent their honeymoon. More than just a guide to historic places, this book brings Britain's greatest heritage to life, with vivid accounts of the intimate stories, great loves, grand passions and underhand deeds of its royal families.