Richard Heath is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and enjoyed teaching history for thirty-five years. His life-long interest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was ignited in his youth by visiting many historic sites in Britain and Europe. He is intrigued by the nature of power and the relationship between rulers and their subjects. Killing Monarchs is his third book following Charles V: Duty and Dynasty (2018) and Henry VIII and Charles V: Rival Monarchs, Uneasy Allies, published by Pen and Sword in 2023. He also curates the website: www.emperorcharlesv.com.

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Richard Heath is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and enjoyed teaching history for thirty-five years. His life-long interest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was ignited in his youth by visiting many historic sites in Britain and Europe. He is intrigued by the nature of power and the relationship between rulers and their subjects. Killing Monarchs is his third book following Charles V: Duty and Dynasty (2018) and Henry VIII and Charles V: Rival Monarchs, Uneasy Allies, published by Pen and Sword in 2023. He also curates the website: www.emperorcharlesv.com.

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Richard Heath is a graduate of the University of Cambridge and enjoyed teaching history for thirty-five years. His life-long interest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was ignited in his youth by visiting many historic sites in Britain and Europe. He is intrigued by the nature of power and the relationship between rulers and their subjects. Killing Monarchs is his third book following Charles V: Duty and Dynasty (2018) and Henry VIII and Charles V: Rival Monarchs, Uneasy Allies, published by Pen and Sword in 2023. He also curates the website: www.emperorcharlesv.com.

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