B/NEW: The Awful End of Prince William the Silent(3102)

In The Awful End of Prince William the Silent, Lisa Jardine explores the historical ramifications of the first assassination of a head of state with a hand-gun. The shooting of Prince William of Orange in the hallway of his Delft residence in July 1584 by a French Catholic - the second attempt on his life - had immediate political consequences: it was a serious setback for the Protestant cause in the Netherlands, as its forces fought for independence from the Catholic rule of the Habsburg empire. But, as Jardine brilliantly illustrates, its implications for those in positions of power were even more far-reaching, as the assassination brutally and irrevocably heralded the arrival of a lethal new threat to the security of nations: a weapon that could be concealed and used to deadly effect at point-blank range.

Queen Elizabeth I, William's close Protestant ally, was devastated by his death and, being the subject of assassination plots herself, thrown into panic; in the aftermath of William's murder, legislation was enacted in the English Parliament making it an offence to bring a pistol anywhere near a royal palace. Elizabeth's terror was not misplaced - as Jardine observes, this assassination was the first in a long and bloody line that would take in those of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and is all too relevant even today.

About the Author:

Lisa Jardine CBE is the Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, and Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and Sheffield Hallam University, and a Trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum. She writes and reviews for the major UK national newspapers and magazines, and has presented and appears regularly on arts, history and current affairs programmes for TV and radio. She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize. Her most recent book is The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London. Lisa Jardine is married to the architect John hare, and has three children.

The Making History Series

'There are moments when a single event topples the most apparently certain of outcomes, when one intervention changes the course of history. THey are the landmarks along the horizon of the past.'

- Amanda Foreman and Lisa Jardine: Making History Series Editors.

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