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CONTENTS
Оглавление1 Birth, Parents, Crisis: ‘A son of goodly hability and expectation’
3 The Fight for Henry: ‘Two mighty factions’
4 Nursery to Schoolroom: ‘The King’s Gift’
5 Tutors and Mentors: ‘Study to rule’
6 The Stuarts Inaugurate the New Age
7 A Home for Henry and Elizabeth: Oatlands
8 The Stuarts Enter London: ‘We are all players’
9 Henry’s Anglo-Scottish Family: Nonsuch
10 Henry’s Day: ‘The education of a Christian prince’
11 Union and Disunion: ‘Blow you Scotch beggars back to your native mountains’
12 Europe Assesses Henry: ‘A prince who promises very much’
13 The Collegiate Court of St James’s
14 Money and Empire: ‘O brave new world’
15 Friends as Tourists and Spies: ‘Traveller for the English wits’
16 Henry’s Political Philosophy: ‘Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power’
17 Favourites: ‘The moths and mice of court’
18 Henry’s Supper Tables: Lumley’s library and tavern wits
19 Henry’s Foreign Policy: ‘Talk for peace, prepare for war’
20 Heir of Virginia: ‘There is a world elsewhere’
PART THREE: PRINCE OF WALES, 1610–12
21 Epiphany: ‘To fight their Saviour’s battles’
22 Prince of Wales: ‘Every man rejoicing and praising God’
23 Henry’s Men Go to War: Jülich-Cleves
24 Henry Plays the King’s Part: King of the Underworld
25 From Courtly College to Royal Court
26 Court Cormorants: Henry and the king’s coterie
27 The Humour of Henry’s Court: Coryate’s Crudities
28 Marital Diplomacy: ‘Two religions should never lie in his bed’
29 Supreme Protector: The Northwest Passage Company
30 Selling Henry to the Highest Bidder: ‘The god of money has stolen Love’s ensigns’
31 A Model Army: ‘His fame shall strike the Starres’
32 End of an Era: ‘My audit is made’
33 Wedding Parties: ‘Let British strength be added to the German’
34 Henry Loses Time: ‘I would say somewhat, but I cannot utter it!’
