Royalty category: 1453 books
by Craig Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
“Rollicking, irresistible, un-put-downable . . . For anyone . . . who swooned to Netflix’s The Crown, this book will be manna from heaven.” —Hamish Bowles, Vogue
**“**Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret is a brilliant, eccentric treat.****” —Anna Mundow, The Wall Street...
Serving Victoria
Life in the Royal Household
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six...
A Journey Through Tudor England
Hampton Court Palace and the Tower of London to Stratford-upon-Avon and Thornbury Castle
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
From King Henry VII to Queen Elizabeth I, this detailed English history brings the past to life through the sights and personalities of the Tudor dynasty.
This lively and engaging book will transport the armchair traveler with a taste for the colorful time of Henry VIII and Thomas Moore to...
Princesses Behaving Badly
Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This edition offers true tales of these take-charge princesses plus dozens more in a fascinating read that’s perfect for history buffs, feminists, and anyone seeking a different kind of bedtime story.
You think you know her story. You’ve read the Brothers Grimm, you’ve watched the Disney...
Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II and Her Court
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Perfect for fans of The Crown, this “intimate portrait” of England’s longest-reigning queen takes you behind the scenes of a thoroughly modern monarchy (BBC Entertainment).
History knows no monarch like her. She has traveled farther than all her predecessors combined, lived the longest...
by Abigail Archer
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
England's first Queen Elizabeth gave her name to an age. Inheriting a bankrupt, famished, and powerless country, she healed its religious rifts, replenished its treasury, redefined diplomatic guile, defeated the Spanish Armada, and inspired a new flowering of English culture. Her father, Henry VIII,...
Wait for Me!
Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood of six daughters and one son that included the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote, when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir Wait for...
William
HRH Prince William of Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
As the boy prince turns into the man who would be king, interest in Prince William is at an unprecedented height in 2003, the year of his twenty-first birthday. Seen as the vital link between the traditions of the Royal Family and the more populist, modern approach of his late mother, Diana, Princess...
The Way Out
A True Story of Ruin and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Craig Childs is lost. In a labyrinth of canyons in the American Southwest where virtually nothing else is alive-barely any vegetation, few signs of wildlife, scant traces of any human precursors in this landscape-Childs and his friend Dirk undertake a fortnight's journey.
The Little Princesses
The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
Once upon a time, in 1930s England, there were two little princesses named Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Their father was the Duke of York, the second son of King George V, and their Uncle David was the future King of England.
We all know how the fairy tale ended: When King George died, "Uncle...
Catherine Howard
The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
At seven oclock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard and carefully helped up the steps of the wooden scaffold. Only a small group of sightseers had gathered to watch the...
by Ian Mortimer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2014
From an award-winning historian: “A new and convincing likeness of medieval England’s most iconic king” (The Sunday Times).
This biography by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England takes an insightful look at the life of Henry V, casting new light on...
The Lost Tudor Princess
The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT • Frombestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power...
Love and Louis XIV
The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his...