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Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and His Six Wives Through the Writings of the Spanish Ambassador Eustace Chapuys by Mackay Lauren
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Mackay, Lauren [Mackay, Lauren]

The ambassador’s response was carefully engineered, as he knew it would get back to Henry before his audience. He attempted to soothe the older man, assuring him that his words ...
( Category: Royalty April 1,2014 )
History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle
epub |eng | 2010-02-17 | Author:Thomas Carlyle [Carlyle, Thomas]

'Partez, ma Soeur, partez; La Suede vous attend, la Suede vous desire,' 'Go, my Sister, go; Sweden waits you, Sweden wishes you. [Does not now exist (see OEuvres de Frederic, ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
The Conquering Family by Thomas B. Costain
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

3 During the last visit he paid to England before becoming King, Richard had been in the offices of the chancellery; briefly, because of his dislike for his bastard brother ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
CHARLES SPURGEON: THE PRINCE OF PREACHERS by DAN HARMON
epub |eng | 1997-03-25 | Author:DAN HARMON [HARMON, DAN]

Referring to the denominational character of the building, he declared: We have one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and dear to our hearts is that Word, the communion of saints. ...
( Category: Religious March 26,2014 )
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle
epub |eng | | Author:Leanda de Lisle

Stokes could not have imagined how Frances’s reputation would be traduced in centuries to come; and nor could her daughters. Mary Grey was comforted in her loss by the extended ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Mistress of the Monarchy by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

On May 12, John left the Savoy; he could have had no idea that he would never see his beautiful palace again. Katherine probably rode northward with him via Hertford, ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Lady in the Tower by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Already people expected the prisoners to be convicted. On May 11, before any trial had taken place, the Abbot of Cirencester wrote informing Cromwell that he had already promised Sir ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Katherine Swynford by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Philippa and Katherine now had much in common: both were essentially femmes soles, both had dedicated a daughter to God, both were rearing sons called Thomas who were of similar ...
( Category: Women March 26,2014 )
Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

12. Conspiracies Dominic Mancini left England during the week after the coronation, and his account, sadly for us, ends there. He says that, before his departure, the Princes had 'ceased ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
Mary, Queen of Scots by Weir Alison
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-10-15 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

So how did Darnley die? The plot to kill him was masterminded by Maitland and Moray, Maitland being the active partner, Moray the passive one but the ultimate beneficiary. Their ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

Elizabeth was passionate about the theatre, and actively protected it from the Puritans who wanted it banned. In 583, she formed her own theatre company, the Queen's Men, of whom ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Henry VIII by Alison Weir
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Weir [Weir, Alison]

38 “Squire Harry Will Be God, and Do as He Pleases!” It was around 1530 that a former servant of Wolsey’s, Thomas Cromwell, entered the King’s service. One of the ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
Mary Tudor by Anna Whitelock
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

NOW IN POSSESSION of her kingdom, Mary could begin the task of governing. She had won the throne at Framlingham with a small council of her household officers, including Robert ...
( Category: Great Britain March 26,2014 )
Magnificent Obsession by Helen Rappaport
epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:Helen Rappaport [Rappaport, Helen]

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: Royalty March 26,2014 )
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II by Michael Paterson
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Paterson [Paterson, Michael]

MATURITY, 1960–1970 ‘The English are getting bored with their monarchy.’ By the beginning of the 1960s the Queen had, as she had put it, ‘matured into’ her office. Her apprenticeship ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )

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