epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Elizabeth was passionate about the theatre, and actively protected it from the Puritans who wanted it banned. In 583, she formed her own theatre company, the Queen's Men, of whom ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

NOW IN POSSESSION of her kingdom, Mary could begin the task of governing. She had won the throne at Framlingham with a small council of her household officers, including Robert ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-22 | Author:Langley, Philippa & Jones, Michael [Langley, Philippa]

8 Richard as King ON 26 JUNE 1483, the first day of his reign, Richard III seated himself on the marble throne of the Court of the King’s Bench in ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-30 | Author:Hook, Peter [Hook, Peter]

The closest we came to exporting the Haçienda experience was by hosting theme nights around Europe and America. Rob saw them as a way of promoting the brand further, which ...

mobi |eng | 1997-09-01 | Author:Kitty Kelley

FOURTEEN I’m fed up to the teeth with your bloody security,” exploded the Duke of Edinburgh. “Let’s get going.” “I’m sorry, sir,” said the U.S. Secret Service agent, “but there’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Richard Holmes

CHAPTER 19 CASABLANCA AND TEHRAN One of the least explored of the major themes of the Second World War is the degree to which the Americans, deliberately or accidentally, pursued ...

mobi |eng | 2008-10-27 | Author:Piers Brendon

This verdict was heard in other parts of Africa painted red on the map. Settler colonies in particular seemed bent on following the Boer example: one Cewa chief complained that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-17 | Author:John Piper

Ibid., pp. 59-60. RootsofEndurance.44279.int.qxd 9/21/07 3:37 PM Page 106 106 T H E R O O T S O F E N D U R A N C E forty-nine ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Sally Bedell Smith

“No one could curtsy lower than Margaret Thatcher.” Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher curtsying to the Queen at 10 Downing Street, December 1985. Tim Graham/Getty Images FIFTEEN Family Fractures AMID THE ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-03 | Author:Max Hastings

Back in Cairo on August 17, Churchill briefly lapsed into exhaustion. After a rest, however, he quizzed Alexander about the prospective desert offensive, which there were hopes of launching in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-10-24 | Author:Kate Williams

CHAPTER 31 The Battered Hero I feel myself highly honoured and flattered by your ladyship's charming letter," enthused Earl St. Vincent, Nelson's commander, to Emma in May 1798. "The picture ...

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:John Piper & Jonathan Aitken

AmazingGraceLWW.48754.i04.qxd 12/6/06 1:59 PM Page 43 A Multitude of Christlike Causes 43 only of the clergy. In a chance meeting with James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s biographer, he spent time into ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Niall Ferguson

Though primarily conpiracy theorists, writers like Drumont and Chirac were also preoccupied with the Rothschilds’ penetration of French high culture and society. In the second volume of Jewish France, Drumont ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...