Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Royalty
Royalty
A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy by Helen Rappaport
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Helen Rappaport

Chapter Eleven ‘A Married Daughter I Must Have Living with Me’ In the spring of 1863 the British public resolutely shook off its gloom and enjoyed a few days of ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Bright Young Royals by Jerramy Fine
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-05 | Author:Jerramy Fine

FULL TITLE: Her Highness Princess Alix of Ligne ROYAL HERITAGE: Her parents are Michel, 14th Prince of Ligne, and Princess Eleonora de Orléans e Bragança; she has one younger brother, ...
( Category: Royalty April 5,2015 )
Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-16 | Author:Nancy Mitford

9 NANCY PAID ANNUAL visits to her parents who had chosen to live apart in their old age—Lord Redesdale in a cottage at Otterburn, Northumberland, and Lady Redesdale at lonely ...
( Category: France April 5,2015 )
The Shadow King by Jo Marchant
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jo Marchant

LORD CARNARVON’S DEMISE wasn’t the only source of dramatic stories constructed from evidence that some might consider rather thin. Attention also focused on Tutankhamun’s own death, or to be more ...
( Category: Royalty April 5,2015 )
The Men Who Would Be King by Josephine Ross
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-16 | Author:Josephine Ross

6 “The Weal of the Kingdom” While there was “but one mistress and no master” in England, there would be no heirs born to the queen. Admirable as her desire ...
( Category: Great Britain April 5,2015 )
Stephen & Matilda: The Civil War of 1139-53 by Bradbury Jim
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:Bradbury, Jim [Bradbury, Jim]

THE ROUT OF WINCHESTER There were two castles in Winchester: the royal castle, which Matilda had already claimed, and the bishop’s own stronghold, Wolvesey Castle, which has recently been reopened ...
( Category: England March 25,2015 )
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 1980-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

Two days later, Peter wrote again: I beg you to do everything that can possibly be done without me. When I was well, I let nothing pass, but now God ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
epub |eng | 1995-02-22 | Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]

On October 18, 1963, the cover of Life, the nation’s most prominent and widely read weekly magazine, displayed a picture of Nicholas II’s five children. The headline was “THE CASE ...
( Category: Russia March 23,2015 )
Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire by Leslie Carroll
epub |eng | 2010-01-30 | Author:Leslie Carroll [Carroll, Leslie]

Catherine placed this letter in a cabinet in her study and locked it away. There it remained throughout her reign, discovered after her death by the new emperor, her son, ...
( Category: Great Britain March 22,2015 )
The Dublin King: The True Story of Lambert Simnel and the Princes in the Tower by John Ashdown-Hill
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Notes Abbreviations CPR Calendar of Patent Rolls ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography PROME Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1. See, for example, Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets, pp. 70–3. 2. ...
( Category: England March 21,2015 )
Joan of Kent: The First Princess of Wales by Penny Lawne
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2015-02-02 | Author:Penny Lawne [Lawne, Penny]

10 Return to England/ In Sickness and in Health 1371–1376 Alas what should I do, God, and love, if I were to lose the very flower of nobleness, the flower ...
( Category: Wales March 21,2015 )
Royal Legacy: How the royal family have made, spent and passed on their wealth by McClure David
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:McClure, David [McClure, David]

11.MARGARET, MUSTIQUE AND MONEY - 2002 “She is far too intelligent for her station in life. She often had a bad press, the usual fate of wits in society” Gore ...
( Category: Royalty March 21,2015 )
Her Majesty by Robert Hardman
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Robert Hardman

* Some have accused Blair of breaking the code of secrecy surrounding the meetings of monarch and Prime Minister by describing them in his memoirs. But there are no complaints ...
( Category: Great Britain March 6,2015 )
The King in the North by Max Adam Max Adams
epub, mobi | | | Author:Max Adam, Max Adams [Adams, Max]

It is also a tradition which has become proverbial, that he died with a prayer on his lips. When he was beset by the weapons of his enemies and saw ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Three Edwards by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

Isabella decided that she would exercise the duties of a regent, even though the title and recognition had been withheld. Mortimer and Adam of Orleton had been given places on ...
( Category: Great Britain March 4,2015 )

First Prev [15] [16] [17] [18] 19 [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] Next Last