With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson focuses on each monarch's entire life from the puny, socially awkward Charles I, to the choleric, violent William the Conqueror, to the well meaning, deeply affectionate Queen Anne, who was so heavy she had to be carried to her coronation. Royal Panoply recaptures the event filled, often dangerous, always engaging lives of England's kings and queens, set against the backdrop of a thousand years of Britain's past.