Royalty category: 1453 books

Grand amateur de femmes, Henri IV est bien connu pour avoir eu de très nombreuses maîtresses et favorites. L'une d'elle tient une place à part dans la vie du roi : c'est Gabrielle d'Estrées, avec laquelle il vit une passion amoureuse pendant huit ans. Jamais encore...

His Royal Highness Prince Ali Seraj, a member of the royal family of Afghanistan, brings four decades of history to life—from the Cold War era when his famed nightclub in Kabul was a hotspot for global celebrities, jetsetters, and spies, to the communist Soviet takeover that killed members of his...

Mucho se ha especulado acerca del matrimonio entre Cristina de Borbón e Iñaki Urdangarin, una relación que no ha hecho más que sumar mentiras y convertir lo que parecía un sueño en una auténtica pesadilla. La periodista Silvia Taulés ha indagado en la peculiar historia de esta pareja,...

Although there is something chilling in that sad, inevitable word, the past—although in looking through the thronged rolls of history, and reading of all the dead passions, the fruitless anxieties, the vain, unproductive yearnings of beings that were once as full of thrilling life and feeling as...

Un repaso a la vida de Felipe VI (y a la historia de España de los últimos 50 años) a través de 200 fotos comentadas: su nacimiento en 1968, la proclamación de su padre como rey, que le convirtió en príncipe de Asturias; su educación escolar, semejante a la de tantos chicos de su edad; la...

«Deja de una vez el Majestad y llámame Juanito» o el conocido «¡¿Por qué no te callas?!» son solo algunas muestras de la personalidad del rey Juan Carlos que se recogen en estas páginas. Un rey que en momentos críticos se vio obligado a tomar decisiones arriesgadas y muy poco conocidas....

*Includes pictures of Babylonian artifacts depicting the kings, the Hanging Gardens, and the Code of Hammurabi. *Explains the legends and mysteries surrounding the kings, including Biblical accounts of Nebuchadnezzar and ancient accounts of the Hanging Gardens.*Includes the Code of Hammurabi. *Includes...

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus (Of Principalities).[1] However, the printed version was not published...

This explosive, evidence-based book is the most shocking, revealing, yet factual work written on the 1997 Paris car crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed. Diana Inquest: Who Killed Princess Diana? includes evidence showing the assassination of Princess Diana was carried...

The explosive evidence in Diana Inquest: The British Cover-Up blows the lid on the events that took place in the 24 hours following the death of Princess Diana in 1997. Diana's body was subjected to two embalmings and two post-mortems - in both France and the UK - within that first 24 hour period....

This explosive book exposes high-level corruption in London’s Metropolitan Police Service following the August 1997 death of Princess Diana in Paris. Over the ensuing decade Scotland Yard carried out one of the biggest and most wide-reaching cover-ups in its history. Police Commissioners Paul Condon...

De werkelijkheid van Julianas leven is verdwenen achter een aantal steeds herhaalde clichés. Een voorbeeld hiervan is dat zij de oorlogsjaren doorbracht in Canada als een 'gewone' huisvrouw en moeder, die zich vooral bezighield met de opvoeding van haar kinderen en wier bijdrage aan de strijd tegen...

*Includes pictures of Peter and important people, places, and events.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “I have conquered an empire, but have not been able to conquer myself.” Peter the GreatA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most...

Lola Montez stürzte Bayern 1848 in die größte Krise seiner Geschichte: Der 60-jährige König Ludwig I. war der erotischen Ausstrahlung der 25-jährigen Hochstaplerin aus Irland so verfallen, dass er die gesamte Bevölkerung gegen sich aufbrachte, seine Regierung zum Rücktritt zwang, Lola zur...