Royalty
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Michael Hicks [Hicks, Michael]

CHAPTER FIVE Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83 WHAT ARE DUCHESSES FOR? The Apostle Paul wrote that marriage was a means of carnal satisfaction without sin. Sex was certainly expected of their ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-21 | Author:Weightman, Christine [Weightman, Christine]

CHAPTER 6 ‘This Diabolicall Duches’ ‘LYKE A DOGGE REVERTYNGE TO HER OLDE VOMYTE.’ ‘Once more’, wrote Jean Molinet, ‘the house of York has been left wretched and deserted by Good ...
( Category: England September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-25 | Author:Hancock, Peter A. [Hancock, Peter A.]

Ramsay is even terser on this matter and simply states, ‘de Comines’ assertions that the troth of Edward and Eleanor had been received by the Bishop of Bath was doubtless ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Ashdown-Hill, John [Ashdown-Hill, John]

Some historians have chosen to interpret all this as proof positive that the Duchess of Bedford had never been guilty of sorcery. Such an interpretation is extremely naïve. It has ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Santiuste, David [Santiuste, David]

Perhaps it is true that Edward did not respect Warwick’s abilities as a commander, although Chastelain’s comments may be derived from Edward’s bravado at the Burgundian court in the following ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:Cooper, John [Cooper, John]

Reading this letter in context, it almost rings true. The Elizabethan age praised those willing to face peril in the pursuit of fame. Berden’s work was undoubtedly dangerous, and by ...
( Category: Great Britain September 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-29 | Author:Robinson, Jeffrey [Robinson, Jeffrey]

Midday Every parking meter in Monte Carlo is taken. In the summer, the public beach along the Avenue Princess Grace is packed with people lying on inflatable mattresses, or on ...
( Category: Royalty September 4,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-09 | Author:Saul David

9 The Delicate Investigation The advent of the Fox-Grenville government presented the Prince with the opportunity to settle a few scores; not least with his estranged wife, Princess Caroline, whose ...
( Category: Wales September 3,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Elizabeth Norton

PART III LATER MEDIEVAL & TUDOR QUEENS WITCHCRAFT, WAR & AMBITION 12 Later Medieval & Tudor Queens In 1399, Henry Bolingbroke usurped the throne from his cousin Richard II, ushering ...
( Category: Great Britain September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Elizabeth Lev [Lev, Elizabeth]

14. BLINDED BY LOVE AS CATERINA CONTINUED her affair with Giacomo Feo, the political landscape in Italy was altering dramatically and dangerously. The distractions of her private life would blind ...
( Category: Italy August 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

* W. Armstrong Davison, in The Casket Letters, advances the further theory that Darnley was already suffering from syphilis when Queen Mary nursed him, apparently for measles, in April 1565. ...
( Category: Great Britain August 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-07-22 | Author:Kate Williams [Williams, Kate]

In November, Parliament reassembled. The Lord Chancellor declared in the House of Lords: “The manner in13 which her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has hitherto discharged her duty in ...
( Category: Great Britain July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-28 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

The Queen required all her female attendants to wear black and/or white, so that the vivid colours and embellishments of her own costume stood out dramatically. Woe betide the lady ...
( Category: Great Britain July 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

There is more in the same vein, with the King pleading for aid against his enemies and detractors and, presumably, the threat of invasion from abroad. Then there is a ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-04-17 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Mary was delighted and moved to see them. After greetings were exchanged, the conversation was mainly about Henry Dudley’s arrest at Calais with incriminating evidence. Later, however, the Queen sent ...
( Category: Royalty July 19,2014 )