Royalty category: 1453 books
by Ben Pimlott
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
An updated edition of Ben Pimlott’s classic biography of the Queen: ‘There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.’ PETER HENNESSY, Independent on Sunday The royal family have been through a tumultuous decade, but with the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton, Prince Philip’s 90th birthday...
Empress of the East
How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire
In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian...
by John Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This explosive book blows the lid on one of the most shocking crimes of our modern era. But it does more than that. How They Murdered Princess Diana is the most complete evidence-based account of the assassination of Princess Diana yet written. It delivers on providing answers to many of the key questions...
by Richard Belzer
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
There’s a lot we haven’t heard about the murder of Princess Diana!Belzer & Wayne are back, and with a big conspiracy and cover-up too. Did you know that:Diana specifically predicted that she would be assassinated. This book documents it very clearly in Diana’s exact words..Stories that the driver...
The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1
Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen (1947-1955)
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix drama chronicling the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and starring Claire Foy and John Lithgow, The Crown by Peter Morgan, featuring additional historical background and beautifully reproduced archival photos and show stills
Elizabeth Mountbatten...
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...
Marie Antoinette
The Portrait of an Average Woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 186,000 words, 14 illustrations)
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by Michael Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Michael Bloch gives a new twist to the oft-told story of King Edward's short reign.Drawing on a decade-long study of the King's personality, and on privileged access to his papers, he sees the King's abdication partly as the result of a plot to get rid of him by men who mistrusted his modernity and...
Prince Harry
Brother, Soldier, Son
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The authoritative biography of Prince Harry by noted royal family biographer Penny Junor, author of Prince William: The Man Who Will Be King and The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor.
Prince Harry, one of the most popular members of the British royal family, has had a colorful...
The Duchess
Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a pariah...
by Penny Junor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This edition does not include illustrations. This explosive biography of the Prince of Wales set media headlines alight on hardback publication. Now available complete with an updated epilogue, it will change the way you think about Charles, his Princess and his mistress. As the Prince of Wales turned...
by John Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Paris-London Connection is the most shocking yet factual book written on the 1997 Paris crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed. This fast-moving but authoritative narrative covers the events leading up to and following the tragedy. The book is a short, quick read –...
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV
Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden's seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the family's...
Juliana
vorstin in een mannenwereld
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Juliana (1909-2004) was een door velen geliefde vorstin; niettemin weten we weinig van haar persoonlijk leven. Na een afgeschermde jeugd in de benauwenis van het hof en na haar opbloei tijdens haar verblijf in Canada gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog, waarbij ze zich veel actiever inzette voor de geallieerde...