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John (Penguin Monarchs): An Evil King? by Nicholas Vincent 9780141977690
RRP: €17.84€13.03King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvred by rebellious barons into agreeing to Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215. Ever since, John has come to be... -
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates 9781910400883
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400883Author Stephen BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Rasputin and his Russian Queen: The True Story of Grigory and Alexandra by Mickey Mayhew
RRP: €26.18€18.59RASPUTIN'S RELATIONSHIP with Russia's last Tsarina, Alexandra, notorious from the famous Boney M song, has never been adequately addressed; biographies are always for one or the other, or simply Alexandra and her husband Nicholas. In this new work,... -
Kate: A Biography by Marcia Moody 9781782431091 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€2.73Following the royal wedding, the Diamond Jubilee and the birth of Kate and William's first baby, popular sentiment towards the royal family has rarely been higher. At the centre of this surge in affection is a woman who has captured the heart of a nation... -
The Queen: 1926–2022 by Andrew Morton
RRP: €13.08€8.89Following her death in September 2022, the outpouring of affection and admiration for the Queen was as touching as it was remarkable. She had been a matriarch to the nation for over seven decades, and tens of millions of people - in Britain and across... -
The Queen's Marriage by Lady Colin Campbell 9781527209848
RRP: €29.75€21.44In this new book royal historian Lady Colin Campbell covers The Queen's Marriage in intimate detail. Using her connections and impeccable sources she recounts details of the inside story of the monarch's relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh and her... -
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl 9780306827990
RRP: €20.22€15.58For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her... -
Queen Victoria After Albert: Her Life and Loves by Ilana D Miller 9781399099714
RRP: €29.75€20.97Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her death in 1901, her monarchy was one of spectacular advances in the British Empire... -
The American Duchess: The Real Wallis Simpson by Anna Pasternak 9781501198458
RRP: €21.42€13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198458Author Anna PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens by Lisa Hilton
RRP: €15.46€10.23England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics, dynastic marriages... -
Diana: Death of a Goddess by David Cohen
RRP: €19.03€13.8200.23 a.m. August 31st 1997. The Mercedes driven by Henri Paul in which Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and Trevor Rees-Jones were travelling crashes into a pillar in the Alma tunnel in the centre of Paris, killing Paul, Dodi and Diana and seriously... -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
€20.71In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow 9780571217342 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€3.15Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old... -
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €17.84€11.66Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. His Restoration was greeted with maypoles and bonfires, like spring after long years of Cromwell's rule. But there was no going back, no way he could 'restore' the old... -
Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana by John Morgan 9780980740752 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.65€2.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980740752Author John MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint John MorganPublisher John MorganWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana by John Morgan 9780980740752
RRP: €10.65€7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980740752Author John MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint John MorganPublisher John MorganWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
A Queen for All Seasons: A Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II by Joanna Lumley
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph 'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treasure chest' - Good Housekeeping In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of... -
Gruffudd ap Cynan - A Collaborative Biography by Karen L. Maund
RRP: €95.20€91.17The life, career and medieval biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137. The reign of the North Welsh king Gruffudd ap Cynan [1075-1135] marked the culmination of a century of rapid social and political change. A product of three... -
King Stephen by Edmund King
RRP: €23.79€20.67This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the... -
Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World: Protecting The Princess Around The World by Ken Wharfe
RRP: €10.70€7.68In public Diana was feted wherever she went, greeted by adoring crowds and fawned over by the media. In private she craved anonymity, and it was Ken Wharfe's brief to protect her and keep her away from prying eyes.The SAS-trained officer from the Yard's... -
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton 9781848685277
RRP: €14.27€9.35The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant,... -
The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: €20.22€17.39A lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped... -
Richard I by John Gillingham 9780300094046
RRP: €29.75€25.37Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten version of a classic account of the reign of Richard The Lionheart, John Gillingham scrutinizes... -
Prince Philip: Duke of Edinburgh by Annie Bullen
RRP: €9.51€6.81As the longest serving royal consort in British history (1921-2021), this fully-illustrated guide celebrates Prince Philip's remarkable contribution to the monarchy. A strong character full of vigour and verve, he found himself married to the most... -
What a Thing to Say to the Queen!: Charming anecdotes from the House of Windsor by Thomas Blaikie
RRP: €11.89€7.66This specially updated edition, released to mark the passing of the late and much-missed monarch, is a collection of warm, amusing recollections from the royal household celebrating the lighter side of palace life. 'What do you do?' a guest inquired of... -
Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood by Tom Licence
RRP: €15.46€13.64An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward's bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular attention."-Leanda de Lisle, The Times"This fine biography... -
Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths by Miles Russell
RRP: €15.46€10.09Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD. The... -
Ramesses the Great: Egypt's King of Kings by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: €22.60€17.70The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson "The author succeeds in bringing this distant age to life through telling detail... -
King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship by Siobhan Clarke
RRP: €19.03€14.58'Packed with absorbing detail and brilliant insights ... I was gripped from the first paragraph.' - Alison Weir No English king is as well-known to us as Henry VIII - famous for his six marriages, for dissolving the monasteries and for the ruthless... -
Cardinal Wolsey: For King and Country by Roberts, Phil 9781399089029
RRP: €23.80€17.01The Wolsey's of Suffolk date to Anglo-Saxon times. The earliest notice of a Wolsey as inhabitant of Ipswich is Thomas Wolsey's father, Robert. He was a successful small businessman and married a Joan Daundy. Thomas was probably born in 1471 in an Inn and... -
Queens of Georgian Britian by Catherine Curzon
RRP: €23.79€17.47Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Hailing from Germany, these occasionally mad, bad and infamous sovereigns presided over a land in turmoil. Yet what of the... -
James IV by Norman Macdougall
RRP: €35.70€24.99James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of the... -
George I by Ragnhild Hatton 9780300088830
€42.25In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic... -
Margaret of Anjou: She-Wolf of France, Twice Queen of England by Joanna Arman
RRP: €27.36€18.06In 1445 a fifteen-year-old French girl left her homeland to marry the son of the great warrior Henry V. Sixteen years later, her husband had lost his throne and she had fled into exile. For a decade, she struggled to reclaim the throne of England before... -
Henry I (Penguin Monarchs): The Father of His People by Edmund King 9780141978987
RRP: €15.46€10.82The youngest of William the Conqueror's sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be king, but he was destined to become one of the greatest of all medieval monarchs, both through his own ruthlessness and intelligence and through the dynastic legacy of... -
Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry Viii's Nearest & Dearest by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: €11.89€10.22This fascinating book studies the life and times of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon, Henry VIII's dearest sister and his closest companion. Charles rose from being Henry's childhood friend to becoming the Duke of Suffolk; a consummate courtier and... -
The Life of Louis XVI by John Hardman 9780300273649
RRP: €15.46€13.64A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . ... -
George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy by Sally Bedell Smith 9780241638248
RRP: €20.22€14.61How King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy George VI should never have been king. But when Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, his younger brother – shy, sensitive, and afflicted with a stutter – found himself on the throne. Only with his... -
Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
RRP: €15.46€10.82Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. There have been a number of books about this doomed couple, but this book brings a new... -
The Kings & Queens of Britain by Cath Senker
RRP: €23.79€19.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789505719Author Cath SenkerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm) 282mm...