A.N. Wilson

Prejudice and Popery

Even after Emancipation, anti-Catholic prejudice was entrenched in the monarchy, right up to the coronation of George V

  • The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights, 1829

    Antonia Fraser

    Weidenfeld, pp. 319

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