Royalty category: 1453 books

Cover of Caballeros de la reina. Las amistades peligrosas de las soberanas
by María Pilar Queralt
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 11, 2015

Las consecuencias de un matrimonio de estado contraído siempre por obligación y nunca por amor, afectaban por igual a reyes que a reinas. Si el monarca buscaba la pasión en alcobas ajenas, es perfectamente lógico que la soberana hiciera otro tanto si bien, salvo excepciones, sus aventuras amorosas...
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Wilhelm II

Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941

by Lamar Cecil
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. This volume completes Lamar Cecil's prize-winning scholarly biography of the Kaiser, one of modern history's most powerful--and...
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by Tian Hengyu
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016

Here are 13 stories on China's most notorious emperors - a motley crew of squanderers, murderers, thugs, lechers and idiots swaggering under the holy cloak of a tianzi! Read on and see how they got their just deserts!
Cover of Les Femmes de la Cour de Louis XV
by Arthur-Léon Imbert de Saint-Amand
Language: French
Release Date: September 22, 2016

Louis XV fut entouré de nombreuses femmes. Tout d'abord, la sienne, la reine, Marie Leczinska, qui lui donna 10 enfants dont 6 filles atteindront l'âge adulte. Mais comme elle est rapide et glissante la pente du vice ! Comme les fautes vont s'enchaîner les unes aux autres ! Pendant...
Cover of The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI
by Lauren Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019

A thrilling new account of the tragic story and troubled times of Henry VI, who inherited the crowns of both England and France and lost both. Firstborn son of a warrior father who defeated the French at Agin- court, Henry VI of the House of Lancaster inherited the crown not only of England...
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Karl der Große

Der heilige Barbar

by Stefan Weinfurter
Language: German
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Viele haben versucht, Karl den Großen für sich zu vereinnahmen. War der erste Kaiser des Abendlandes nun Deutscher, Franzose oder gar der Vater Europas? Und was weiß man jenseits aller Legenden tatsächlich von ihm? Nicht nur die Menschen seiner Zeit, sondern auch die Nachwelt ist bis heute von...
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Luise von Preußen

Königin der Herzen

by Daniel Schönpflug
Language: German
Release Date: September 4, 2013

August Wilhelm Schlegel nannte sie die «Königin der Herzen». Während Napoleons Armeen die Throne in Europa zum Wanken brachten, gelang es Luise von Preußen, der Gemahlin Friedrich Wilhelms III., die Untertanen für die Monarchie zu begeistern. Als Preußens Waffen längst vor dem Kaiser der...
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Kaiser Max und sein Tirol

Geschichten von Menschen und Orten

by Michael Forcher
Language: German
Release Date: April 9, 2019

GESCHICHTEN VON KAISER MAXIMILIAN UND SEINEM TIROL. MAXIMILIAN I. - EIN KAISER DER SUPERLATIVE Maximilian I. legte den Grundstein für die weltweite Bedeutung des Hauses HABSBURG. Der hochgebildete RENAISSANCEHERRSCHER trat als Förderer der Wissenschaften und Künste auf. Gleichzeitig war er ein...
Cover of Cnut the Great
by Timothy Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

A seminal biography of the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire Historian Timothy Bolton offers a fascinating reappraisal of one of the most misunderstood of the Anglo-Saxon kings: Cnut,...
Cover of Jasper: The Tudor Kingmaker
by Sara Elin Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017

Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, Duke of Bedford, brother and uncle of kings, was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, and the Lancastrian claimant during the reign of Edward IV. The second son of Owen Tudor and the widowed queen Katherine of Valois, he was the half-brother of Henry VI, who gave him...
Cover of Catherine of Aragon
by Anne Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Catherine of Aragon is a biography of the famous queen by noted biographer of the English Queens, Anne Strickland.
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Friedrich II.

Der Sizilianer auf dem Kaiserthron

by Olaf B. Rader
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2013

Heiland oder Antichrist? Wie kein zweiter Herrscher des Mittelalters hat Kaiser Friedrich II. (1196–1250) die Gemüter erhitzt und die historische Phantasie entzündet. Schon zu Lebzeiten galt er als „Staunen der Welt“, und noch im 20. Jahrhundert wurde er zum genialen Staatsmann, Vorläufer...
Cover of William the Conqueror
by David Bates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and...
Cover of Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding Book
by Halima Sadat
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018

Since the announcement from Kensington Palace that Harry and Meghan had chosen St George’s Chapel on 19 May, 2018 as their wedding venue, the world has been gripped by wedding fever. Pitkin is delighted to publish this new royal souvenir in commemoration of their special day. This is the...
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