Unruly Av David Mitchell

<p><b>Brought to you by Penguin.<br><br>Discover who we are and how we got here by pre-ordering comedian and student of history David Mitchell''s <i>UNRULY: A History of England''s Kings and Queens</i></b><b>- a thoughtful, funny exploration of the founding fathers and mothers of England, and subsequently Britain.</b><br><br><b>Think you know the Kings and Queens of England? Think again.</b><br><br>In <i>UNRULY</i>, David Mitchell explores how early England''s monarchs, while acting as feared rulers firmly guiding their subjects'' destinies, were in reality a bunch of lucky sods who were mostly as silly and weird in real life as they appear to us today in their portraits.<br><br>Taking us right back to King Arthur (spoiler: he didn''t exist), David tells the founding story of post-Roman England right up to the reign of Elizabeth I (as the monarchy began to lose its power). It''s a tale of narcissists, inadequate self-control, excessive beheadings, middle-management insurrection, uncivi