Royalty category: 1453 books
LIFE Royal Weddings
Grandeur, Romance, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
A generation ago, hidebound royal traditions would have prevented Prince Harry from marrying his love, Meghan Markle, a divorced American actress. But times are changing, even at Buckingham Palace. Celebrate this new chapter as well as the historic marriages of the British Royal family in this special edition, LIFE Royal Weddings.
by The Editors of LIFE
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The aura around the royal family is vastly different than it was in years and decades past. Now, 20 years after the death of the transformative Princess Diana, today's generation of royals are active and engaged, using the power of their position to advance causes for the good of the community. Prince...
LIFE Queen Elizabeth
Britain's Longest Reigning Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Celebrate the Queen Elizabeth's 65 years with the crown in this special collector's edition of LIFE Queen Elizabeth: Britain's Longest Reigning Monarch.
Imprudent King
A New Life of Philip II
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins...
Dublin King
The True Story of Edward, Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower'
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A year after Richard III's death, a boy appeared claiming to be his heir and the rightful King of England. In 1487, in a unique ceremony, this boy was crowned in Dublin Cathedral, despite the Tudor government insisting that his real name was Lambert Simnel and that he was a mere pretender to the throne....
by John Ashdown-Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
What Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada A new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard’s last 150 days explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight...
by Nigel Ashton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
A towering figure in the history of Jordan, King Hussein reigned for nearly half a century, from his grandfather’s assassination in 1953 to his own death in 1999. In this fascinating biography, Nigel Ashton recounts the eventful life of the king who not only survived but flourished amidst crisis after...
Bastard Prince
Henry VIII's Lost Son
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
It took Henry VIII 28 years, three wives, and a break with Rome before he secured a legitimate male heir. Yet he already had the illegitimate Henry Fitzroy. Fitzroy was born in 1519 after the king's affair with a gentlewoman named Elizabeth Blount. He was the only illegitimate offspring ever acknowledged...
Welsh Kings
Warriors, Warlords, and Princes
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety of independent kingdoms with varying degrees of power, influence, and stability, each ruled by proud and obdurate lineages. In this period a "kingdom of Wales" never existed, but the more powerful leaders, like Rhodri Mawr, Gruffudd...
Tudor Survivor
The Life and Times of William Paulet
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
A captivating portrait of a great man who for many years held the purse strings of England, and both witnessed and was instrumental in the greatest events of the periodFrom the Siege of Boulogne to the execution of two queens, the Reformation, and the beginnings of Elizabeth's Golden Age, Paulet was...
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Father of the Canadian Crown
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
The story of Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (1767-1820) is also a story of early Canada. An active participant in the very genesis of the country, including discussions that would eventually lead to Confederation, the Prince lived in Quebec City, undertook historic tours of Upper Canada and...
King George V's Obsession
the biography of a stamp collector
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
George V - the current British Queen's grandfather - spent most his time collecfting stamps and building up the finest collection in the world. This is the first biography of George V in 30 years.Using new sources and papers from the Royal archives, it looks at his life, his isolated upbringing and...
Shogun
The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
This book tells the fascinating history of the life of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu — Japan's most famous Shogun.
Since its initial appearance, A.L.Sadler's imposing biography of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been recognized as an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Japanese...
King Faisal
Personality, Faith and Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1964 Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king of a country holding a quarter of the world's oil reserves, also home to Mecca and Medina. He was called 'the most powerful Arab ruler in centuries'. Eleven years later, in front of television cameras, his nephew shot him at point-blank range. In this authoritative...