Amberley imprint: 2705 books
by David Loades
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister Elizabeth, had to survive from childhood in the...
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Discarded Bride
Henry VIII's Discarded Bride
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
I like her not! was the verdict of Henry VIII on meeting his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, for the first time. Anne could have said something similar on meeting Henry and, having been promised the most handsome prince in Europe, she was destined to be disappointed in the elderly and corpulent king. Henry...
The Boleyns: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Family
The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic drama of the Tudor era. The Boleyns had long been an influential English family. Sir Edward Boleyn had been Lord Mayor of London. His grandson, Sir Thomas had inherited wealth and position, and through the sexual adventures of his daughters,...
Anne Boleyn: Henry VIII's Obsession
Henry VIII's Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Anne Boleyn was the most controversial and scandalous woman ever to sit on the throne of England. From her early days at the imposing Hever Castle in Kent, to the glittering courts of Paris and London, Anne caused a stir wherever she went. Alluring but not beautiful, Annes wit and poise won her numerous...
England's Queens
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England, either as queen regnant or queen consort and the voices of all of them survive through their own writings and those of their contemporaries. The primary role of the queen over the ages was to provide an heir. Catherine of Aragon found this to...
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love
Henry VIII's True Love
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant, of Henry VIIIs wives. The real Jane was a very different character, demure and submissive yet with a ruthless streak as Anne Boleyn was being tried for treason, Jane was choosing her wedding...
Catherine Parr
Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The sixth wife of Henry VIII was also the most married queen of England, outliving three husbands before finally marrying for love. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII.
She was the most reluctant...
Four Queens and a Countess
Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and England was a Protestant country, yet ardent Catholics plotted to depose Elizabeth and put Mary Stuart...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the ‘Celtic’ nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when union with England finally came in 1707...
Royal Babies
A History 1066-2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime, a child arrives who will inherit the throne. This summer, the nation watched as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, delivered our future king. There have been predictions, expectations and a flurry of media attention around the new parents...
by Geoff Brown
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
In April 1199 Richard the Lionheart lay dying in his mother's arms, victim of a well-aimed crossbow bolt and of an incompetent surgeon. Magnaminously, Richard pardoned the skilful archer, but ordered the slaughter of the rest of his enemies in the town he was besieging. A few days later as Richard's...
by Janette McCutcheon
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Many rare images are used, telling the story of these important royal occasions from the twelfth century to the present day. Royal Weddings are always a time for public celebration; the build-up, the pomp and circumstance of the day, the dress, the sense of occasion. Author Janette McCutcheon takes...
by Oliver Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Oliver Thomson's book The Other Kaisers is one of the first books to look at the proliferation of German dynasties throughout Europe. Aimed at the general reader The Other Kaisers will appeal to anyone with an interest in biography and history, particularly royal history. The book's underlying theme...
Arthur and the Kings of Britain
The Historical Truth Behind the Myths
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of the land. The...