
The Spencers, like the Windsors, are a dynasty, and one of the most successful families that England has produced. But how did a family of Tudor sheep farmers from Northamptonshire reach the ranks of the upper aristocracy by the time of the Restoration, and how did they then continue to consolidate their great position at the apex of society through the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries?
Page Count:
292
Publication Date:
2000-01-01
ISBN-10:
0006530540
ISBN-13:
9780006530541
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