Royalty
epub |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Aronson, Theo [Aronson, Theo]

As the Prince of Wales liked his women either stylishly dressed or naked, it is hardly surprising that he had very little sympathy with the movement for the emancipation of ...
( Category: Royalty July 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Helen Castor [Helen Castor]

2 Dearest and Most Powerful ‘Our King Edward has now reigned six full years’, the author of the Vita wrote in 1313, ‘and has till now achieved nothing praiseworthy or ...
( Category: England July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:The King & the Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners [King, The & Roosevelt, the Cowboy: Theodore & Edward the Seventh, Secret Partners]

17 TEEDIE IN LOVE TEEDIE’SHOME VALUES remained with him always. They formed a strict code. He believed in marriage, family, and monogamy. By temperament as well as by belief he ...
( Category: Great Britain June 17,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Jung Chang [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-14 | Author:Swynford, Katherine [Katherine, Swynford,]

8 'The Lady of Kettlethorpe' Nearly five years on from the end of their affair, Katherine could perhaps view the prospect of John leaving England for a long period with ...
( Category: England June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-11 | Author:James Chambers [James Chambers ]

In her isolation at Cranbourne Lodge Charlotte was at least allowed to see newspapers. She read that the motion had been withdrawn. The week went by. The sense of being ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Asia June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-29 | Author:E. Gordon Browne

CHAPTER X: The Great Exhibition The idea of a "great exhibition of the Works and Industries of all Nations" was Prince Albert's. The scheme when first proposed in 1849 was ...
( Category: British & Irish June 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Nancy Mitford [Mitford, Nancy]

12. THE FACULTY Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes et non de leurs maladies. MOLIÈRE Illness and death were very dreadful at Versailles. As soon as the breath ...
( Category: France June 1,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Massie, Robert K. [Massie, Robert K.]

Despite the huge losses of the previous autumn, the coming of spring 1915 found the Russian army again ready for battle. Its strength, down to 2,000,000 men in December 1914, ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Tom Quinn [Tom Quinn]

IF BILLY HAD mixed feelings about Anstruther, Aird and the other advisers and equerries, his admiration for Prince Charles was unqualified. Charles always made a point of talking to Billy, ...
( Category: LGBT May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Jean Sasson [Sasson, Jean]

*** The following week Dr. Meena and Nadia met with Amani and me at my home in Riyadh. Maha had returned to Europe the previous week with her friend Laila, ...
( Category: Women May 27,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-17 | Author:Aronson, Theo [Aronson, Theo]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Royal Disease 1 With this gradual spread of Queen Victoria's descendants throughout the courts of Europe, so was something more sinister being passed on. Haemophilia, the dreaded ...
( Category: Royalty May 27,2015 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Fifteen WE CANNOT DROP OUR WORK IN THE HOSPITALS In January 1915 an additional burden of concern was placed on the shoulders of the Romanov sisters when Anna Vyrubova ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-06-05 | Author:Helen Rappaport

In the summer of 1918, the road out to the Koptyaki Forest – a dense area of ancient birch and pine forest nine miles north-west of Ekaterinburg – would take ...
( Category: Russia April 5,2015 )