Excerpt from Boy Kings and Girl Queens IN this book I have told for ordinary boys and girls stories of some of the royal boys and girls who have become Kings and Queens at an age when most children think only of games and toys. One or two of these boy Kings and girl Queens died while yet they were children, others grew to manhood and womanhood, and ruled well or ill. But of their lives beyond the age of twenty-one this book takes no account. The stories are taken from the history of our own land and from that of our near neighbours France and Germany - France our one-time enemy, Germany our constant ally. Other countries too have had child rulers, but I could not tell of all. I have not tried even to tell the stories of all the child rulers of our own land. For Scotland alone furnishes enough to fill a large book. During the three centuries and a half from 1214 to 1567 Scotland had fifteen rulers, ten of whom came to the throne in childhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from To My King and Queen: They'll Understand Happy "Now then, out of the way, old sobersided Stick-in-the-mud," I barked. "I do wish you'd get it into that melancholy old head of yours that I'm the Kings dog now and that you're not wanted here, moping about the Palace with your watery eyes and twisted mouth. "That's right, put your ragged stumpy tail between your legs and slink away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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