epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Anna Whitelock [Whitelock, Anna]

The ambassador told Arundell to advise your Majesty of this instantly, which, he said, would serve as a sample and handsel [token] of his goodwill; and within a fortnight or ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Antonia Fraser [Fraser, Antonia]

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, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Hated, Humbled, Mortified ‘The Queen [is] hated, humbled, mortified … to know that she favours a Measure is the certain Means to frustrate its Success.’ Gouverneur Morris, 1 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Fraser, Antonia [Fraser, Antonia]

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Mermaid and the Hare ‘Certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid’s music’ Shakespeare in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (said to be a reference ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

CHAPTER NINE The Mystery of the Royal Will ‘His Majesty … being by God’s sufferance born by just and most certain title and succession to such a kingdom as knows ...

epub, mobi |eng | | 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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Anne Somerset [Somerset, Anne]

The Whigs hoped to receive some redress when a new Bishop of Exeter was named, and after the Bishop of Chester died in early 1707 they assumed that he too ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-28 | Author:Kris Waldherr

The humanist glories of the Renaissance did not extend to the royal women of this era. During this dangerous period, there were two primary forces threatening to push queens off ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Morton [Morton, Andrew]

During their marriage Diana found it embarrassing that when she and the Prince of Wales went away he took more luggage than she did: ‘I am always appalled that Prince ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-29 | Author:Hutchinson, Robert [Hutchinson, Robert]

ought to forget Spain and everything Spanish in order to gain the love of the king and of the English. She had become so much accustomed to this idea that ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alison Weir

15 ‘A Great and Strong Labour’d Woman’ ‘The Queen’, wrote a Paston correspondent, ‘is a great and strong labour’d woman, for she spareth no pain to sue her things to ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Elizabeth Norton [Norton, Elizabeth]

10 PRINCESS MARY & THE QUEEN’S AUNTS As the queen, Anne was placed in charge of arranging the household of her daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as well as the arrangements made ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Massie, Allan [Massie, Allan]

Chapter 12 The Interregnum and the Scattered Family (1649–60) The news of the King’s execution shocked the courts of Europe. Few probably would have been surprised, or even distressed, if ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

Henry’s desire for Anne is thus premised on what Sartre would later describe as the desire to capture the elusive freedom of another person by “incarnating” it as flesh. But ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

On November 25, St. Katherine’s Day, Elizabeth went to her coronation sumptuously attired in a kirtle, gown, and mantle of purple velvet, furred with ermine bands, and the same circlet ...