Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens

Explore the Royal Gardens of the Tudors and Stuarts, and how these unique landscapes played key roles in international diplomacy. This will be of particular interest to those studying garden design, post-medieval archaeology, social and political history, as well as royal court studies.

Monarchs, no less than their subjects, want to impress their guests. This book is about gardens as one aspect of creating favorable impressions – soft power – in particular through the royal gardens of Englan...