This biography of Georgiana Cavendish reveals the important role she played in the social and political circle of Whigs in 17th-century England. It shows her to be a woman of high influence but also one caught up in scandalous behavior in her household.
Acclaimed biographer Alison Weir brings the enigmatic Elizabeth to life as never before in a brilliantly researched, fascinating book that is both an enthralling epic and an amazingly intimate portrait. 16-page photo insert.
Winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize, Foreman's bestselling work--soon to be a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes--is a penetrating, marvelously written account of Lady Georgiana Spencer. Two 8-page b&w photo inserts.
This biography of Eleanor of Aquitane, who was married to both Louis VII of France and, later, to Henry II of England, reviews her wealthy background, her reportedly voracious sexual appetite (which was a source of much gossip in her time), and the political intrigues in which she was involved. Eleanor wielded considerable power in 12th-century ...
Considered a classic of American literature and military autobiography, Grant's memoirs are an honest, clear retelling of the author's growing-up in Ohio, his graduation from West Point, his marriage to Julia Dent, and, most significantly, his experiences during the Mexican and U.S. Civil wars. This title is not a survey of the Civil War, but an ...
Having literally risked her life to make her story known to the people of the world outside Saudi Arabia, Princess Sultana now continues her tale of repression and violence against women into the next generation. Despite their mother's privileged position in the Saudi royal family, Sultana's daughters do not escape the consequences of feudal ...
Weir's popular biography of the most famous king in English history deals with his life and life in the court--and conveys a prodigious amount of historical research.
The Arab-American Lisa Halaby married King Hussein in 1978, becoming Queen Noor of Jordan. In this memoir, she writes candidly about her life as the wife of a king, with insights into the politics of the Middle East as well as details of her humanitarian activism, her children's upbringing, and the sad death of her husband in 1999.
The acclaimed historian and bestselling author of "Eleanor of Aquitaine" turns her expert eye on the dark reign of another notorious and charismatic medieval monarch, Queen Isabella of France.
This account of Queen Eleanor and her century is offered as a study of individuals who set their stamp upon the events of their time, rather than as a study of developing systems of politics, economics, or jurisprudence.
In this follow-up to the bestselling "Sex with Kings" we discover the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the Queen's boudoir. After all, Queen Victoria, that bastion of virtue, had nine children! You'll read about the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Tsarina ...
With consummate skill, Fraser pens a magnificent, sweeping portrait of the self-proclaimed Sun King Louis XIV, who ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in 17th-century Europe, and explores in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.
Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. As an engrossing account of one of the century's most ...
Despite five centuries of investigation by historians, the sinister deaths of the boy king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, remain one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. Did Richard III really kill "the Princes in the Tower", as is commonly believed, or was the murderer someone else entirely? In ...
A biography of the 16th-century Spanish king. Philip II was one of the greatest figures of Spanish history: a staunch Catholic who brought the weight of his office to bear against the northern Protestants, a patron of the arts, a master diplomat, and a soldier who conquered Holland and tried to invade Britain when their alliance collapsed. Kamen ...
Well-known journalist and historian Jim Bishop begins this book at 7:00 a.m., April 14, 1865, with Lincoln emerging from his bedroom, worried about a dream in which he saw himself dead. The book ends 24 hours later, with the surgeon general placing two silver dollars on the president's eyelids.
Now in paperback: "A splendid book with two absorbing subjects...This is history at its most enjoyable. "-Sunday Times (London). Henry VIII's sisters, neglected by generations of historians, affected the lives of their contemporaries much more forcefully than did any of their brother's famous six wives. In The Sisters of Henry VIII, Maria Perry ...
The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart. Known among their families as Georgie, Willy, and Nicky, they were, respectively, the royal cousins George V of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Nicholas II of Russia--the first ...
Throughout history, royal women have often had a distressing way of meeting bad, often gruesome, ends. Complete with a cautionary moral for each doomed queen, this work is a wry tribute to those ill-fated women--one regal demise at a time.
The almost universal conception is that the life of Princess Margaret (1930-2002) was a tragic failure, a history of unfulfilment. Tim Heald's vivid and elegant biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring - even more so than Princess Diana, years later - and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with the glamour. The ...
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent 13th century comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence, whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.
Catherine of Aragon, the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir; Anne Boleyn, the pretty, clever, French-educated 'Protestant' whose marriage to Henry changed England forever; Jane Seymour, the demure and submissive contrast to Anne's radical and vampish style; Anne of Cleves, 'the Mare of ...
The no-holds-barred account of the House of Windsor, from Queen Elizabeth's childhood to the much-publicized split between Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
Paul Murray Kendall's account of the life of Richard III explores not only the man himself, but also the ways that he has influenced culture: Richard also played a central role in several literary works, most notably as a character of William Shakespeare's. Kendall's analysis of how others perceived Richard is central to the character study.
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