The Royal Puzzle Book
300 Challenges and Teasers from Alfred the Great to Charles III
Test your knowledge of kings and queens by attempting to answer some 300 questions across 25 topics, from early kingdoms to the realms of England, Scotland and Wales and the British Royal Family of the modern era.
The topics range from Coronations to Sports and Pastimes – from the first English queen crowned in her own right to the only royal to have won an Olympic Medal. Do you know which country’s national anthem uses the same music as ‘God Save the King’? Whose corpse is said to have exploded in its coffin? What was Queen Victoria’s first name? These hundreds of puzzles are accompanied by a wealth of illustrations from the collections of the British Library. Accept the challenge and see how much more you can learn.
Philip Parker is a writer, consultant and publisher specialising in cartography as well as ancient and medieval history. He studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and is the author of The British History Puzzle Book (2021), as well as the History of Britain in Maps (2016) and the DK Eyewitness Companion Guide to World History (2010). As a publisher he ran The Times books.
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