As someone who studies kingship and the idea of rulers to my fellow scholars who also study this stuff: why this incessant and persistent twee woobification of kings and queens?
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For Wales, Wendy Davies I believe has written the most. For England, a scholar I go back to often is Janet Nelson, but she looks at inauguration rites. Chaney and Wallace-Hadrill looked at kingship in England but their books are pretty dated now.
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For Scotland, the recent publication The King in the North: The Pictish Realms of Fortriu and Ce by Noble and Evans is excellent. For Gaelic Scotland and Dal Riata, there is John Bannerman's long list of publications. I also rec Alfred P. Smyth and Katherine Forsyth.
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