Royalty category: 1453 books
Elizabeth's Women
Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
A source of endless fascination and speculation, the subject of countless biographies, novels, and films, Elizabeth I is now considered from a thrilling new angle by the brilliant young historian Tracy Borman. So often viewed in her relationships with men, the Virgin Queen is portrayed here as the...
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...
Kate
A Biography of Kate Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
An eBook-only edition of the UK instant bestselling biography of Britain’s newest princess Kate Middleton—from her childhood to the royal wedding.
Kate is the definitive biography of Britain's newest princess. Bestselling author Sean Smith has retraced the steps of Kate's journey, from...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of the queens and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Discusses the Elizabethan era and Victorian era in depth and looks at their legacies and depictions in pop culture.*Includes a Table of Contents"Video et taceo." ("I see, and say nothing") Queen Elizabeth ISince...
The Plantagenets
The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Crusaders, that tells the story of Britain’s greatest and worst dynasty—“a real-life Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)
The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire...
Louis II de Bavière
Ou Hamlet Roi
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2019
On le connaît d’abord par ses châteaux, mais comme le soulignait Jacques Bainville, « il serait difficile de compter ce que doit la littérature à la légende de ce malheureux roi ». Louis II, le roi fou, a vécu dès sa jeunesse dans l’exaltation de ses rêves caressés par la musique wagnérienne....
Queen Isabella
Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn.
In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old...
The Swan King
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Swan King is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the nineteenth
century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria is remembered both for his patronage...
The Romanovs
1613-1918
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?
This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas,...
by Robert K. Massie
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
“[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the...
by Donald Grant Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
English Lands Letters and Kings: From Celt to Tudor is a great overview of English history.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey
The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
The real-life inspiration and setting for the Emmy Award-winning Downton Abbey, Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon.
Drawing on a rich store of materials...
by Jules Harper, Aurora von Goeth
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Innovator. Tyrant. Consummate showman. Passionate lover of women.
After the death of King Louis XIII in 1643, the French crown went to his first-born son and heir, four-year old Louis XIV. In the extraordinary seventy-two years that followed, Louis le Grand - France’s self-styled ‘Sun King’...
by Antonia Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
“A book that will leave few readers unmoved.”–San Francisco Chronicle
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown...