mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-14 | Author:Anne Sebba

… I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-27 | Author:The Countess Of Carnarvon

12 War Heroes After six months of listening to horror stories from the Western Front and tending desperate patients, the familiarity of the winter trip to Egypt must have felt ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1992-08-15 | Author:Alison Weir

stature she was a formidable woman: highly intelligent, literate, strong-minded, devout and austere in her religious observances. She was the sole heiress of the Beaufort descendants of John of Gaunt ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-12-29 | Author:Alison Weir

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Alison Weir

There was no hint in this letter of any criticism of the King, to whom the Queen constantly referred as her “very dear lord,” as became a loving wife. Yet ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1980-09-11 | Author:Robert K. Massie

entrenched army. The rear of the new Russian camp overlooked the bluff of the Vorskla at a point where the bank was so steep and the river so broad and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-15 | Author:Antonia Fraser

The fate of that other young woman, Angelique, whose duty was no more than to divert the King of France, was in the end not much better, if less protracted ...

mobi |eng | 2011-02-18 | Author:Alison Weir

No one was more delighted than the Queen when Mary signed her submission. Jane had worked for months towards a reconciliation, and she now looked forward to receiving her stepdaughter ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-28 | Author:Alison Weir

When he arrived at Calais, Warwick began courting the friendship of Philip of Burgundy, whose ships he had recently so cheerfully plundered. The merchants of Calais and those in England ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-31 | Author:John Ashdown-Hill

12 ‘Here Lies the Body’1 When Henry VIII dissolved the religious houses of England, the fate of the burials within the monastic and conventual churches varied. Occasionally, surviving relatives took ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-07-08 | Author:Alison Weir

Northumberland was at King's College, Cambridge when, on the morning of 20 July, he heard that Mary had been proclaimed in London. In a desperate attempt to save his neck, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-13 | Author:Simon Dixon

In the end, the Menshikov Palace was used to house theatrical staff and Catherine chose to build a new stone residence on the site of the burnt-out palace on the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-06 | Author:Marc Morris

The Great Cause Within a month of the close of the autumn parliament of 1290 Queen Eleanor was dead. During her stay in Gascony she had contracted a malarial fever ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Dan Jones

War on All Fronts The sea routes across the English Channel and along the Atlantic coast of France were major trading arteries during the thirteenth century, as merchants from the ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-18 | Author:Linda Rodriguez McRobbie [ McRobbie, Linda Rodriguez]

POSTABDICATION VACATION Christina’s impatience to leave was obvious. She cleared out of Uppsala the same day she abdicated, even before the banquet celebrating her cousin’s coronation had ended. Making for ...