Royalty category: 1453 books

*Includes pictures of Charles, Diana and important people, places, and events in their lives.*Discusses the controversies surrounding the royal marriage and conspiracy theories about Diana and her death.*Includes a Table of ContentsAnywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can....

Following the success of ‘You Look Awfully Like the Queen’, this is a second anthology of hilarious and touching royal anecdotes, collected by Thomas Blaikie. An unfortunate culture clash occurred when a Geordie councillor was invited to one of the Queen’s informal lunches. As is the old-fashioned...

Als Victoria 1837 im Alter von 18 Jahren den Thron bestieg, hätte niemand ihr zugetraut, eine erfolgreiche Königin zu werden – geschweige denn, ein ganzes Zeitalter zu prägen. Die Historikerin Karina Urbach erzählt in dieser wunderbar geschriebenen Biografie, wie Victoria in ihrer 63-jährigen...

Extrait : Cléopâtre n’était pas très belle. Elle ne l’emportait ni en beauté ni en jeunesse sur cette chaste Octavie à qui elle prit Antoine pour la vie et la mort. « Sa beauté, dit Amyot, qui traduit Plutarque agréablement, sa beauté seule n’étoit point si incomparable qu’il n’y...

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...

If you ever read one book by John Buchan this should be it, an often overlooked masterpiece of historical fiction. The Path of the King, offers a tapestry of historical episodes, from the blood soaked spears of Viking battlefields to the industrial slaughter of the American Civil War, we trace the idea of kingliness and whether the highborn hold the only chance of true nobility and honour.

The most interesting political character of the ending 19th century was undoubtedly the young man who filled the throne of the German Empire. Americans are so used to seeing young men filling important positions and administering great trusts that the mere question of age seems less important than...

Cum și-au crescut regii britanici copiii din 1066 până în prezent Lumea întreagă a fost uimită când Prințesa Diana s-a dovedit a fi o mamă bună și afectuoasă. Ea a constituit o excepție: Familia Regală a Marii Britanii este cunoscută mai curând pentru relațiile reci și chiar...

Mens Leonora Christina Ulfeldt sad indespærret i Blåtårn på Københavns Slot, fordrev hun tiden med at skrive. 'Hæltinners Pryd' fortæller om nogle af historiens og sagnenes største kvindeskikkelser. Leonora Christina Ulfeldt præsenterer os for blandt andre dronning Margrethe I af Danmark,...

Hyderabadis still remember the reign of Mahbub Ali Pasha as a golden age in the history of their city. Mahbub, beloved of his people, who ruled Hyderabad at the turn of the present century, became a legend in his generosity and benevolent concern for his subjects.Weaving together memories, stories...

This early work by Eva March Tappan was originally published in 1903 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'In the Days of Queen Victoria' is a biography of Queen Victoria and details aspects of her school days, her coronation, and her family life. Eva March Tappan...

INDICE DOS CAPITULOS I--Como o Ifante Dom Affonso foi alevantado por Rei, e como foi cazado, e com quem, e que filhos legitimos houve II--Das desavenças que houve antre El Rei D. Affonso, e as Ifantes suas irmãs, e da guerra que sobre esso se moveo III--Como foi pelo Papa procedido contra El-Rei...

Anna Amalia von Weimar war eine starke und unabhängige Frau, die nicht nur ihren Zeitgenossen außergewöhnlich erschien. Als Regentin übernahm sie – kaum zwanzigjährig – den Thron ihres verstorbenen Mannes; als Künstlerin und Intellektuelle schuf sie den bis heute weltberühmten Weimarer-Musenhof....

Cuando en 1880 se planteó en la legislatura porteña la cesión de la ciudad de Buenos Aires para que fuera convertida en sede de las autoridades nacionales, Leandro N. Alem afirmó con palabras proféticas que la concentración del poder político en la ciudad más grande y rica de la Argentina...