Dr. David Robert Starkey CBE (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian, and a specialist in the Tudor period. Starkey was the only child of poor Quaker parents in Kendal, Westmorland (now Cumbria), England. His mother, a strong personality, had a powerful influence on Starkey's formative years; he portrays his father as a gentle, somewhat ineffectual man. Despite suffering from painful physical disabilities (polio and a double club foot), … Wikipedia
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