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by Christopher Hibbert
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.
To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German...
Catherine the Great
Love, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophers—the Empress Catherine II, the Great, was all these things, and more. Her reign, the longest in Russian Imperial history, lasted...
Death and the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth I and the Dark Scandal That Rocked the Throne
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In the tradition of Alison Weir's New York Times bestselling Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley, comes the most sensational crime story of Tudor England.
On the morning of September 8, 1560, at the isolated manor of Cunmor place, the body of a young woman was found at the bottom...
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In this remarkable biography, Carolly Erickson brings Elizabeth I to life and allows us to see her as a living, breathing, elegant, flirtatious, diplomatic, violent, arrogant, and outrageous woman who commands our attention, fascination, and awe.
With the special skill for which she is acclaimed,...
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...
Katherine the Queen
The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr, the Last Wife of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old...
The Race to Save the Romanovs
The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In this international bestseller investigating the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the various plots and plans to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible.
The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and...
Alix and Nicky
The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
The dramatic story of Emperor Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna, the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia—A penetrating and deeply personal study that gives profound psychological insight into their marriage and how it shaped the events that engulfed them.
There are few characters...
From Splendor to Revolution
The Romanov Women, 1847--1928
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This sweeping saga recreates the extraordinary opulence and violence of Tsarist Russia as the shadow of revolution fell over the land, and destroyed a way of life for these Imperial women
The early 1850s until the late 1920s marked a turbulent and significant era for Russia. During that time...
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
As Maureen Quilligan wrote in the New York Times Book Review of The First Elizabeth, Anne Boleyn "was a real victim of the sexual scandals her brilliant daughter escaped, and a subject Ms. Erickson's sensitivity to sexual and political nuance should well serve." Indeed, Carolly Erickson...
Edward VI
The Lost King of England
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The birth of Edward on October 12, 1537, ended his father's twenty-seven-year wait for an heir. Nine years later, Edward was on the throne, a boy-king in a court where manipulation, treachery, and plotting were rife.
Henry VIII's death in January 1547 marked the end of a political giant whose...
A Magnificent Obsession
Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband – a story that began as fairy tale and ended in tragedy.
After the untimely death...
A Princess Found
An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a...
Queen Victoria
A Life of Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Queen Victoria is Britain's queen of contradictions. In her combination of deep sentimentality and bombast; cultural imperialism and imperial compassion; fear of intellectualism and excitement at technology; romanticism and prudishness, she became a spirit of the age to which she gave her name.
Victoria...