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Chris Skidmore

Biography

Chris Skidmore

Chris Skidmore was born in Bristol, England in 1981. He is the author of EDWARD VI: The Lost King of England and DEATH AND THE VIRGIN QUEEN: Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne. He taught history at Bristol University is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In 2010 he was elected as a British Member of Parliament.

Chris Skidmore

Books by Chris Skidmore

The Rise of the Tudors: The Family That Changed English History
by Chris Skidmore - History, Nonfiction

THE RISE OF THE TUDORS is a tale of brutal feuds and deadly civil wars, and the remarkable rise of the Tudor family from obscure Welsh gentry to the throne of England --- a story that began 60 years earlier with Owen Tudor's affair with Henry V's widow, Katherine of Valois. Drawing on eyewitness reports, newly discovered manuscripts and the latest archaeological evidence, Chris Skidmore vividly recreates this battle-scarred world and the reshaping of British history.