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Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars by Elena Maria Vidal
epub |eng | 2016-05-03 | Author:Elena Maria Vidal [Vidal, Elena Maria]

Monseigneur did not understand what had brought her, and questioned her; astonished at finding so much devotion, resolution, and courage in that timid soul, he was greatly touched, and overwhelmed ...
( Category: Royalty September 5,2019 )
Of Virtue Rare by Linda Simon
epub |eng | 2016-06-01 | Author:Linda Simon [Simon, Linda]

VIII - Bosworth True hope is swift and flies with swallow’s wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. RICHARD III, Act 5, Scene 2 IN 1485, the population ...
( Category: Royalty September 5,2019 )
Charles I (Penguin Monarchs) by Mark Kishlansky
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Mark Kishlansky

5 Reform and Rebellion The implications of the Scottish invasion sunk in slowly. Initially Charles believed that he could reinvigorate his forces and revive his cause. All he needed was ...
( Category: Military August 19,2019 )
Victoria by Jane Ridley
epub |eng | 2015-03-16 | Author:Jane Ridley

The source for this touching scene is an undated letter written by the queen after John Brown’s death to his brother Hugh, into which she copied an extract from ‘an ...
( Category: Royalty August 17,2019 )
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen
epub |eng | 1997-05-29 | Author:Henry Kamen [Kamen, Henry]

The somewhat giddy pace was quite usual. Because of the distances involved, and also because he went accompanied either by his family or by his papers, the king normally travelled ...
( Category: Royalty August 3,2019 )
Daughters of Chivalry by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
epub |eng | | Author:Kelcey Wilson-Lee

XIII Homecoming 1300–1 THE NORTH, WOODSTOCK On her way back to England, Elizabeth stopped off in Brussels to bid farewell to Margaret who, after ten years of marriage and at ...
( Category: Royalty August 3,2019 )
The White King by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Leanda de Lisle

* When Henrietta Maria reached Nevers in October 1644, her dwarf Jeffrey Hudson challenged the brother of the captain of her guard to a duel. The weapons chosen were pistols ...
( Category: Royalty August 3,2019 )
White Rajah by Nigel Barley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nigel Barley [Barley, Nigel]

Bishop Wilson of Calcutta was very different from his lissom great-nephew, William Brereton. He was seventy-two years old, huge and fat and eccentric and, by the obscure rules that govern ...
( Category: Royalty August 2,2019 )
Richard II: A True King's Fall by Warner Kathryn
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-18 | Author:Warner, Kathryn [Warner, Kathryn]

13 ‘To Meet at London London’s King in Woe’: Conflict in London, 1391–1393 On 27 April 1391, Richard had the body of his elder brother Edward of Angoulême transferred to ...
( Category: Royalty July 31,2019 )
Elizabeth by Sarah Bradford
epub |eng | 1997-07-02 | Author:Sarah Bradford [Bradford, Sarah]

same, but Elizabeth now offered a compromise. On 8 February i960 she issued a statement in Council: Now therefore I declare my Will and Pleasure . . . while I ...
( Category: Royalty July 27,2019 )
Victoria's Daughters by Jerrold M. Packard
epub |eng | 1999-12-23 | Author:Jerrold M. Packard [Packard, Jerrold M.]

While the lives of her sisters were being agitated by death, displacement, and distress over troublesome offspring, Lenchen’s placid existence generally flowed through the royal family like a languid stream ...
( Category: Royalty July 26,2019 )
Our Queen by Hardman Robert
epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:Hardman, Robert [Hardman, Robert]

Her Image 'One doesn't want to look like everybody else' It was perhaps the most extraordinary piece of royal film ever shot - a genuine, gale-force royal domestic right in ...
( Category: Royalty July 26,2019 )
Royal Weddings by Emily Brand
epub |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Emily Brand

THE ‘DEMOCRATIC’ WEDDING KING GEORGEV AND QUEEN MARY were crowned in the summer of 1911. The conflict and austerity that were to blight the early years of his reign were ...
( Category: Royalty July 24,2019 )
The Legitimacy of Non Reigning Royal Families by Salvatore Caputo
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Salvatore Caputo [Caputo, Salvatore]

NON REIGNING DYNASTIES Today, almost all countries have a working government that is preside over by Presidents and or Prime Ministers. There are many monarchs around the world who hold ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 18,2019 )
Matilda by Catherine Hanley
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Catherine Hanley [Hanley, Catherine]

1. Matilda (bottom) is depicted on a genealogical roll, along with her father, Henry I (right), her mother, Edith-Matilda (top), and her only legitimate brother, William Adelin (left). 2. Mainz ...
( Category: Women in History July 4,2019 )

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