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The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret by Karen Dolby 9781782439585 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.87Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind closed doors.Even as a child, Princess Margaret - younger sister of Elizabeth - was noted for her theatrical and witty demeanour. Her... -
The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret by Karen Dolby
RRP: £9.99£6.85Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind closed doors.Even as a child, Princess Margaret - younger sister of Elizabeth - was noted for her theatrical and witty demeanour. Her... -
Queen Victoria's Daughters-in-Law by John Van der Kiste
RRP: £25.00£17.62Of Queen Victoria's four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the family of the Grandmama of Europe' was Alexandra, eldest daughter of the prince... -
Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of the Queen's Life and Reign by Jennie Bond 9781787394803 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.00£2.80Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch in British history. She has been a towering presence in British national life and throughout the world for almost 70 years and it is this extraodinary life that former BBC correspondent Jennie Bond... -
William IV: The Last Hanoverian King of Britain by Van der Kiste, John 9781399098571
RRP: £25.00£17.62Born in 1765, third son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, initially had little expectation of succeeding to the British throne. A brief career in the navy, followed by several years of semi-obscurity and a liaison... -
Diarmait King Of Leinster by Nicholas Furlong 9781856355056
£14.55Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled through a turbulent period and became one of the most dominant figures in Irish history. Furlong... -
Tea with Hitler: The Secret History of the Royal Family and the Third Reich by Dean Palmer 9780750995641
RRP: £20.00£15.04After the Second World War, war crimes prosecutors charged two of King George VI's closest German relatives with 'crimes against humanity'. American soldiers discovered top-secret documents at Marburg Castle that exposed treacherous family double-dealing... -
Elizabeth I: The Making of a Queen by Laura Brennan 9781526714572
RRP: £19.99£14.28Elizabeth I is arguably one of the greatest monarchs and women of English history. Against an uncertain political and religious backdrop of post-reformation Europe she ruled at the conception of social modernisation, living in the shadow of the infamy of... -
King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts by Claudia Gold
RRP: £12.99£8.48Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral... -
The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III by Gemma Hollman
RRP: £20.00£15.04'Hollman combines scrupulous research with spellbinding storytelling; The Queen and the Mistress will keep you turning the pages.' - Sylvia Barbara Soberton, author of Ladies-In-Waiting: The Women Who Served Anne Boleyn'A must-read for anyone interested... -
Charles: The Heart of a King by Catherine Mayer 9780753560099 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller'Breathtaking' The Times'[The book that] made headlines around the world.' IndependentThe former Prince of Wales has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims... -
Charles: The Heart of a King by Catherine Mayer
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller'Breathtaking' The Times'[The book that] made headlines around the world.' IndependentThe former Prince of Wales has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims... -
Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon 9781473871229
RRP: £19.99£14.28For over a century of turmoil, upheaval and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover, to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four... -
Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King? by Rosemary Horrox 9780141978932
RRP: £14.99£10.95No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III.He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own... -
Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: £12.99£9.09Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII. The most reluctant of all Henry's wives, she... -
The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor by Trevor Rees-Jones 9780446527750
RRP: £30.00£22.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446527750Author Trevor Rees-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
RRP: £9.99£6.41The story of poison is the story of power... For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid poison, they depended on tasters, unicorn horns and... -
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith 9780241638217
RRP: £30.00£21.95A revelatory account of how King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's loving marriage saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal ArchivesFrom the bestselling... -
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330625 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£2.29* * 'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'Almost every page is a gem'A. N. Wilson, Spectator Christmas Books'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the... -
The Quest for Queen Mary by James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330625
RRP: £25.00£16.78* * 'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'Almost every page is a gem'A. N. Wilson, Spectator Christmas Books'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the... -
Scandals of the Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving Badly by Tom Quinn 9781785906527
RRP: £20.00£14.29George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in... -
Victoria (Penguin Monarchs): Queen, Matriarch, Empress by Jane Ridley
RRP: £6.99£5.13The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackQueen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female monarch in history, in a time of intense industrial,... -
Louis XIV's Architect: Louis Le Vau, France's Most Important Builder by Richard Ballard 9781399054195
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is a study of royal absolutism in a most extreme form in modern European history, and of the nature of Louis XIV's concept of personal glory and of the embodiment of France as a new superpower. It is a study of political ideas expressed in... -
Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria's Spanish Granddaughters by Ana de Sagrera 9781781558546
RRP: £30.00£21.35Princess Eugenia (Ena) of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice (Bee) of Saxe-Coburg, granddaughters of Queen Victoria of England, married into the Spanish royal family. In 1906 Ena became the consort of King Alfonso XIII, who had been sovereign since his... -
The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke 9780300059434
RRP: £14.95£13.01Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary... -
James I by Michael Brown
RRP: £25.00£23.03Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide... -
Elizabeth's Spymaster by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: £12.99£7.83The incredible real life story of the world's first super spy'Full of stimulating detail... vivid glimpses of the world of Elizabethan espionage' GUARDIAN'Walsingham emerges from these pages as a hero of epic stature' DAILY TELEGRAPHFrancis Walsingham... -
Marie-Antoinette, Daughter of the Caesars: Her Life, Her Times, Her Legacy by Elena Maria Vidal 9781530934485
RRP: £19.99£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781530934485Author Elena Maria VidalFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Diana, William and Harry by James Patterson 9781529125535
RRP: £20.00£14.69'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Weekly'Patterson treats the princess as a person and tells the story from a mother's perspective'... -
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald 9780753823774 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She was a... -
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald
RRP: £10.99£7.40Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She was a... -
Edward II (Penguin Monarchs): The Terrors of Kingship by Christopher Given-Wilson
RRP: £7.99£5.79'He seems to have laboured under an almost child-like misapprehension about the size of his world. Had greatness not been thrust upon him, he might have lived a life of great harmlessness'The reign of Edward II was a succession of disasters. Inept in... -
The Queen by Matthew Dennison 9781788545921 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. 'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her... -
The Queen by Matthew Dennison 9781788545921
RRP: £12.99£9.09Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III. 'A worthy and balanced overview of the Queen's life. Dennison is especially good on her... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: £21.99£18.95In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II by Ian Lloyd
RRP: £15.99£12.25At the time of Elizabeth II's accession, Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Harry S. Truman was President of the United States and Joseph Stalin still governed the Soviet Union. It has often been said that she never put a... -
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn 9780199372195
RRP: £42.99£32.03As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the... -
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household by Kate Hubbard 9780099532231 [USED COPY]
RRP: £13.99£2.65In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, read this sparkling portrait of her court, seen through the lives of her household.'Eye-opening and thoroughly engaging' Sunday TimesDuring the sixty-three years of her reign, Queen... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson 9781782398318
RRP: £25.00£16.99Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of... -
Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King by Ian W. Walker
RRP: £12.99£9.62King Harold Godwineson is one of history's shadowy figures, known mainly for his defeat and death at the Battle of Hastings. His true status and achievements have been overshadowed by the events of October 1066 and by the bias imposed by the Norman...