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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia by Jean Sasson
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jean Sasson

Chapter Twelve: On the occasion of my wedding, the preparation room was filled with gaiety. I was surrounded by women of my family; no one person could be heard, for ...
( Category: Women November 6,2014 )
Wilhelm II by Clark Christopher
epub |deu | 2010-04-03 | Author:Clark Christopher [Christopher, Clark]

Dann macht der Kaiser beim Sprechen hie und da kurze Pausen, man sieht ihm an, wie er nachdenkt, die Stirn sich faltet, und das Auge in der Ferne sucht, bis ...
( Category: Germany November 6,2014 )
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
epub |eng | 2014-10-23 | Author:A. N. Wilson [Wilson, A. N.]

For some years now, General Grey had been looking for a way to resign as the Queen’s private secretary. Although relations between the wise old soldier and his monarch had ...
( Category: Great Britain November 4,2014 )
Madame de Maintenon by Buckley Veronica
epub |deu | 2013-09-29 | Author:Buckley, Veronica [Buckley, Veronica]

Kapitel 15 La vie en Rose Denk an Dein Vergnügen642 und an Dein Seelenheil; sie schließen sich nicht gegenseitig aus. Das schrieb Françoise ihrem Bruder Charles kurz nach ihrer Hochzeit ...
( Category: France November 3,2014 )
Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-04-03 | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

203 Rouen.15 Historians have speculated as to whether she was betrayed by Poitevin spies working for Henry, since four Poitevins-- William Man-got, Portedie de Mauze, Foulques de Matha, and Herve ...
( Category: Great Britain October 31,2014 )
Lion of Jordan by Avi Shlaim
epub |eng | 2003-10-30 | Author:Avi Shlaim

16 The October War All diplomatic activity to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict was suspended in the second half of 1972. Israel had no real interest in negotiating with any of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 31,2014 )
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Kara Cooney

She continues with a section on how temple building is akin to marking herself as the chosen one. The temple of the mistress of Qusae, which had (completely) fallen into ...
( Category: Women October 27,2014 )
Secret Lives of the Tsars by Michael Farquhar
epub |eng | 2014-07-07 | Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]

* * * *1 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled ...
( Category: Russia October 16,2014 )
Prince Harry by Penny Junor
epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:Penny Junor

THWARTED “The best thing that ever happened to Prince Harry in a military sense,” says one of his team, “was his commanding officer of the Household Cavalry at Windsor, Lieutenant ...
( Category: Great Britain October 16,2014 )
The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Adrienne Mayor

Mithradates and his entourage ascended Buyuk Evliya Dag, to the sanctuary of Zeus the Warrior. Archaeologists have discovered many inscriptions in this important site of native Anatolian and Iranian- influenced ...
( Category: Rome October 15,2014 )
The Queen Mother by William Shawcross
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-26 | Author:William Shawcross

In fact her gowns in wartime were a constant worry. The King looked elegant in uniform throughout the war; the Queen had more difficulty deciding what she should wear. She ...
( Category: Great Britain October 15,2014 )
Robert the Bruce, King of Scots by Ronald McNair Scott
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Ronald McNair Scott [Ronald McNair Scott]

Bruce had used this raid to test the quality of the resistance he might expect, and having found it wanting he resolved to enlarge the scale of his invasion. Taking ...
( Category: Scotland September 22,2014 )
Censoring Queen Victoria by Yvonne M. Ward
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Yvonne M. Ward

Chapter 8 THE WELCOME FOREIGNER: PRINCE ALBERT TIME AND AGAIN, IT has been observed by biographers how unlike his father Albert was. Born in 1819, Albert was the second son ...
( Category: Great Britain September 22,2014 )
Blood Sisters : The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses (9780465038688) by Gristwood Sarah
epub |eng | | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

IT IS OFTEN SAID that Elizabeth Woodville must have known the Princes were dead, or she would never have gone along with a plan to marry her daughter Elizabeth, with ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )
Blood Sisters : The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses by Gristwood Sarah
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gristwood, Sarah [Gristwood, Sarah]

John Talbot, in his Garter robes, presents a copy of the beautifully illustrated Shrewsbury Book to Marguerite of Anjou, shown hand in hand with her new husband, Henry VI. Daisies—Marguerite’s ...
( Category: Great Britain September 18,2014 )

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