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Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
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Include books by the same authorPrinces at War: The Bitter Battle Inside Britain's Royal Family in the Darkest Days of WWII
Deborah Cadbury · 400 pages
A very unusual biography of the four brothers of the royal family during the Abdication crisis of 1936 as well as the war years until the death of George VI. Traces the self confidence and loyalties of the King and the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from light hearted young men to their responsibilities in marriage and as soldiers and leaders of men. The war is seen as a tragedy for their cousins in
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
Maureen Waller · 467 pages
In 1688, the birth of a Prince of Wales ignited a family quarrel and a revolution. James II's drive toward Catholicism had alienated the nation and his two staunchly Protestant daughters by his first marriage, Mary and Anne. They are the "ungrateful daughters" who usurped their father's crown and stole their brother's birthright. Seven prominent men sent an invitation to William of Orange -- James
In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
Julia P. Gelardi · 404 pages
She Wolves: the Notorious Queens of England
Elizabeth Norton · 285 pages
The Last Days of Henry VIII
Robert Hutchinson · 367 pages
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Alison Weir · 643 pages
The tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England (1509-1547) is one of the most fascinating in all history, not least for his marriage to six extraordinary women. In this work of scholarship, Alison Weir draws on early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports to bring these women to life. Catherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woma
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led The World To War
Catrine Clay · 432 pages
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
Karen Lindsey · 262 pages
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
Kate Hubbard · 417 pages
Serving Victoria follows the lives of six members of her household, from the governess to the royal children, from her maid of honor to her chaplain and her personal physician -- Front jacket flap.
The Sun King : Louis Fourteenth at Versailles
Nancy Mitford · 255 pages
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Antonia Fraser · 496 pages
The Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses and Bastards
Philippa Jones · 327 pages
Everybody thinks they know the tale of King Henry VIII's wives: divorced, beheaded died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But behind this familiar story, lies a far more complex truth. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's mistresses were dalliances, the playthings of a powerful and handsome man. However, when
17 Carnations: The Royals, the Nazis, and the Biggest Cover-Up in History
Andrew Morton · 384 pages
This book is a meticulously researched historical tour de force about the secret ties among Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, the Duke of Windsor, and Adolf Hitler before, during, and after World War II. Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, later Duke of Windsor, his American wife Wallis Simpson, the bizarre wartime Nazi plot to make him a puppet king after the invasi
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens from Eleanor of Aquitaine to Elizabeth of York
Lisa Hilton · 536 pages
Elizabeth & Leicester: Power, Passion, Politics
Sarah Gristwood · 528 pages
“Even their contemporaries felt that the relationship of Elizabeth and Robert transcended the details on practicality. There had to be some explanation for their lifelong fidelity, and those contemporaries put it down to 'synaptia', a hidden conspiracy of the stars, whose power to rule human lives no-one doubted: 'a sympathy of spirits between them, occasioned perhaps by some secret constellation'
The Last Days of Richard III
John Ashdown-Hill · 190 pages
This book contains details about what Richard III did in his last five months, what happened to his body, and how his DNA was found in Canada. This book explores these events from the standpoint of Richard himself and his contemporaries. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, this book presents a new Richard - not a passive victim, awaiting
The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown
Claire Ridgway · 348 pages
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
Flora Fraser · 477 pages
The Victoria Letters: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen (The Official Companion to the ITV Series)
Helen Rappaport
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
Carolly Erickson · 368 pages
The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
Greg King, Sue Woolmans · 383 pages
In the summer of 1914, three great empires dominated Europe: Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Four years later all had vanished in the chaos of World War I. One event precipitated the conflict, and at its heart was a tragic love story. When Austrian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand married for love against the wishes of the emperor, he and his wife Sophie were humiliated and shunned, yet they re
The Woodvilles: The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family
Susan Higginbotham · 224 pages
224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm