Four Princes

How four leaders born in one decade defined a century

by John Julius Norwich

Publisher John Murray Price £17 Release Out Now Looking for the recipe for a great story? Take four large egos, add power and royal blood, mix in some warfare and sprinkle with a few beheadings, and voilá! You have the mesmerising concoction that intoxicated almost all of 16th-century Europe. Between 1491 and 1500, four princes were born that changed the fate of their countries: King Henry VIII of England, King Francis I of France, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Their great power, rivalry and influence made them the four pillars on which Europe’s fate rested, each threatening to topple it over when their wildly different personalities clashed. In his 32nd book, John Julius Norwich tells the story of these four men in…

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