Royalty

'The Firm', as the royal family styles itself, judged by real corporate standards, is a mess. Any consultants called in from outside to scrutinise its inner workings would find all the familiar flaws of a family business that has outgrown its original...

The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic...

This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, his illegitimate children John of Gloucester, and Katherine, who became...

The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and her second husband Henry II. Although academically labelled medieval', their era was the violent...

Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet they are also correspondence between the rulers of nations. From Henry VIII's lovelorn notes to Anne Boleyn...

A rich portrait of Frederick Barbarossa, the medieval monarch who ruled Germany in cooperation with the princes and whose legend inspired Hitler to label his invasion of the Soviet Union "Operation Barbarossa""Freed has done so much to illuminate the ins...

The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.From her childhood, overshadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship, to the fantastical...

The story of the many suitors of Elizabeth I - one of the most eligible brides in 16th century Europe.From her childhood, overshadowed by the marital upheavals of her father Henry VIII, and the tragic first encounter with courtship, to the fantastical...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller'[The book that] made headlines around the world.' Independent He has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims much higher. A landmark publication, Charles:...

The Hats of the Crown examines 50 iconic headpieces adorned by the Queen during her reign, uncovering the royal, political and fashion landscape of the time. In her 70 years in power, Queen Elizabeth II has made her mark on history, navigating the ups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643134833Author Kate WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels under King James I, a position in which he was responsible for censorship of Shakespeare's later plays. His...

In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister,...

'Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended...

This biography illuminates the life of Henry VII himself, how he ran his government, how his authority was maintained, and the nature of the country over which he ruled since he first claimed the throne in 1485.Sean Cunningham explores how Henry's reign...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979800Author Sally Bedell SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

R is for Revenge Dress explores the celebrated life of Princess Diana through the alphabet."A-mazing to 'C' the younger generation B-eing so interested in the legacy of HRH." -Andrew Morton, Author of Diana: Her True Story Though "R" is for Revenge...

Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle that was going on in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992801434Author Susan SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Roseland BooksPublisher Roseland Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312244965Author Jerrold M. PackardFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 544g

In 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...

Adulteress? Sorceress? Immoral Temptress? No English Queen has been so persistently vilified as Anne Boleyn. Even after her execution in May 1536 - on trumped-up charges of adultery - the portrait that has come down to us is the one drawn by her enemies...

Biography of Prince WilliamAbout the AuthorBrian Hoey is the author of several books on maritime and Royal history. His The Royal Yacht Britannia, published in 1999, is now in its third edition. Among his other works are Anne. The Princess Royal, The...

Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999777067Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackImprint ZuleikaPublisher Zuleika

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999777067Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackImprint ZuleikaPublisher Zuleika

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465055937Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 58mm

Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (1744-1818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consort-or, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowager-of...

'Explains a lot about the man who became Henry VIII...Robert Hutchinson vividly shows us the monster in the making and teaches us to feel a modicum of pity for his plight' DAILY MAIL'Brings the future king's personality vividly to life, with all of its...

'Explains a lot about the man who became Henry VIII...Robert Hutchinson vividly shows us the monster in the making and teaches us to feel a modicum of pity for his plight' DAILY MAIL'Brings the future king's personality vividly to life, with all of its...

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs-the...

A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known. Packed with royal stories from 2,000 years of history, from the immortality-obsessed first...

A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known. Packed with royal stories from 2,000 years of history, from the immortality-obsessed first...

With a foreword by the Rt Hon Sir John Major, The Queen: The Diamond Jubilee is a beautifully illustrated commemoration of the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, from her early years to her role as a modern monarch in the 21st century. This book...

Individual rights cannot always take precedence over collective, social responsibility. Without self-moderation, our streets, schoolyards, public transport, waiting rooms and restaurants would turn into bear pits. Most citizens understand that. Some,...

When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality Richard detested England and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426102Author Ben HillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352g

Cecily Bonville-Grey was one of the richest women of her time, inheriting the Harington and Bonville fortunes as a young child. In 1474, at the age of fifteen, she married Thomas Grey, the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville from her first marriage to Sir...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011205Author Henri TroyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm