Royalty category: 1453 books
by María Luz Gómez
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Grande en la prosperidad. Mayor en la adversidad.
La vida de la princesa Isabel de Hungría se asemeja, en su primera parte, a un cuento de hadas. En la segunda deberá enfrentarse a la adversidad. Pero, en una y en otra, dio muestras de su bondad, nobleza y generosidad. Nunca se conformó...
Reinas malditas
Emperatriz Sissi, María Antonieta, Eugenia de Montijo, Alejandra Romanov y otras reinas marcadas por la tragedia
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Las fascinantes vidas de seis reinas marcadas por la tragedia que no pudieron elegir su destino y que dejaron una profunda huella en la Historia.
Excéntricas, caprichosas, rebeldes, ambiciosas... Más allá de un mundo de privilegios, riqueza y poder, todas fueron mujeres de carne y hueso...
Once Upon a Time
Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage.
by Jared Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
American biography (1902) Author: Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866 Volume: 1 Subject: Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758; Eaton, William, 1764-1811; Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801; Smith, John, 1580-1631; Stark, John, 1728-1822; Pinkney, William, 1764-1822; Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796; Hudson, Henry, d. 1611; Marquette,...
by Lacey Baldwin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
The Elizabethan World was a world remade. At the dawn of the sixteenth century, Europe was emerging from an age of ignorance and uncertainty. New lands were being discovered and old ones revitalized. People abandoned the ideals of medieval times to make startling advances in technology, science, and...
by D.N.Shanbhag
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A great king of Kalinga who ruled twentyone centuries ago. Coming to the throne when the state was in distress, he brought confidence and self-respect to the people. And he refused to join hands with a foreign army against an Indian prince.
Elizabeth and Mary
Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
"Superb.... A perceptive, suspenseful account." --The New York Times Book Review
"Dunn demythologizes Elizabeth and Mary. In humanizing their dynamic and shifting relationship, Dunn describes it as fueled by both rivalry and their natural solidarity as women in an overwhelmingly masculine world."...
Marguerite d'Angoulême, Soeur de François Ier
Les Femmes de la Cour des derniers Valois Tome 1
Language: French
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Marguerite d’Angoulême, reine de Navarre, surnommée la Perle des Valois, est la sœur de François Ier. Plus qu’une sœur, elle fut l’amie, la confidente, la conseillère. Elle adoucit sa nature fougueuse, elle lui donna le goût des lettres et des arts, elle développa...
A Treasury of Royal Scandals
The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest Weirdest MostWanton Kings Queens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class.
Gleeful, naughty, sometimes...
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles
A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal...
In the name of the child
A Broken Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
“How much pain and suffering must a man endure in the name of the child, for the breach of trust, oath and honor for a land he so dearly loved, for its people insofar as he WAS PREPARED to give his life for the freedom of others for the preservation of laws of mankind, for the true love and dedication before of his Queen”?
Driving the Saudis
A Chauffeur's Tale of the World's Richest Princesses (plus their servants, nannies, and one royal hairdresser)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The true-to-life account of a female chauffeur hired to drive the Saudi royal family in Los Angeles.
After more than a decade of working in Hollywood, actress Jayne Amelia Larson found herself out of luck, out of work, and out of prospects.
When she got hired to drive for the Saudi royal...
Genghis Khan (Illustrated)
Makers of History
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
The word khan is not a name, but a title. It means chieftain or king. It is a word used in various forms by the different tribes and nations that from time immemorial have inhabited Central Asia, and has been applied to a great number of potentates and rulers that have from time to time arisen among...