Royalty category: 1453 books

Die vielleicht größte Romanze der GeschichteKatharina die Große war eine Frau von berüchtigter Leidenschaft, politischer Brillanz und faszinierendem Charme. Fürst Potemkin – ein gut aussehender Lebemann und äußerst gewandter Politiker - war die Liebe ihres Lebens, heimlicher Gemahl und Mitherrscher....

Did you know… • William IV was wont to speak his mind and could sometimes lack tact, which is said to have inspired the nickname ‘Silly Billy’? • Edward III banned all sports, including football, on Sundays, so that his subjects could be free to concentrate solely on their...

Grigori Rasputin, the "Holy Devil" of Russian legend, was a well-meaning peasant with a psychiatrist's gift for healing and unusual opportunities for sexual conquest. The tsar, historian E. M. Halliday argues in this essay, might have done better to listen to him more, not less.

A new look at the German empire from the age of Bismarck onwards, its decline during the First World War, the Kaiser’s abdication, and royal connections with the Nazi regime Comprehensive selection of images, including some rarely seen Insightful portrait of the Kaiser’s family, including accounts...

Do you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate educator Mr Gwynne is back – and this time he is taking on the entirety of British history – so you will never be in the dark again. Within...

Now that the Prince Henry of Wales (familiarly known as Prince Harry)and Meghan Markle have officially announced their engagement, it’s time to know better the things these two person value more in life. In this eBook you will get to know better the opinions of Henry Charles Albert David...

Die mitreißend erzählte Geschichte einer großen Leidenschaft am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkriegs, eingewoben in das Spannungsfeld europäischer Mächtepolitik Ihre Liebe triumphierte über alle Konventionen des Standes – ihre Ermordung in Sarajewo 1914 wurde zum zündenden Funken, der schließlich...

Charles I or Charlemagne united most of Western Europe during the Middle Ages and laid the foundations for modern France and Germany. He was the first recognized Roman emperor in the West since the collapse of the Roman Empire three centuries earlier and ruled absolutely over a vast domain for thirteen...

Was wir bisher über Franz Ferdinand und die Tragödie von Sarajevo gelesen haben, ist meist gängiges Geschichtswissen. Ganz anders sieht es aber aus, wenn heute ein Mitglied der Familie zu Wort kommen kann: Anita Hohenberg, die Urenkelin des Thronfolgers, Mutter von vier Kindern, Schlossherrin von...

A poetry fashioned biography style memoir of a unique perspective in my view on a lot of things and how I keep a centralized vibe in explanatory topics and or situations I've written about in this series of 3.In this construct is an applied creative ability I, the author has found or enabled...

Cet ouvrage aurait pu s'intituler : Les Favorites (et les Favoris) de Louis XVIII. En effet, ce frère de Louis XVI, a toujours eu besoin de quelqu'un dans son intimité, homme ou femme... Laissons parler l’auteur : « C’est ici le lieu de chercher à expliquer une bonne...

« ...Quelque digne de l’admiration universelle que soit l’œuvre de Henri IV depuis 1589 jusqu’à sa mort, il n’en est presque rien de grand, presque rien d’heureux pour la France, que le roi de Navarre n’eût déjà manifestement voulu, projeté et entrepris. Avant de succéder à Henri...

This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, his illegitimate children John of Gloucester, and Katherine, who became countess of Huntingdon, and to other possible children,...

Historien om den franskfødte Carl Johan Bernadotte (1763-1844) er historien om en ganske almindelig ung mand, barnebarn af en skræder, søn af en jurist, der tog skæbnen i sine egne hænder og skabte en tilværelse uden lige. Carl Johan Bernadotte blev selv først marskal af Frankrig, dernæst...