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Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Hugo 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... -
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother by Hugo Vickers
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.41Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was... -
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers 9780312302399
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312302399Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 477Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher... -
Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography Hugo Vickers 9781529316247
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.68Cecil Beaton was one of Britain's greatest cultural icons - not just as a photographer capturing some of the most celebrated portraits of the 20th century but also as designer of the iconic sets and... -
Coronation: The Crowning of Elizabeth II: 2023 by Hugo Vickers 9780957311961
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957311961Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The... -
The Crown: Truth & Fiction: An Analysis of the Netflix Series The Crown by Hugo Vickers
Booksplease Price: £4.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999777067Author Hugo VickersFormat PaperbackImprint ZuleikaPublisher Zuleika -
The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough Hugo Vickers 9781529390742
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.98**The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020****The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year 2021**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her... -
Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton Hugo Vickers 9781529338034
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A fascinating document, a window on to a lost world of glamour, grandeur and snobbery . . . an elegy, sad and comical, to a passing era' Craig Brown, MAIL ON SUNDAY'I got as caught up in these... -
Elstree 175: Celebrating 175 Years of Elstree School by Hugo Vickers 9781911397380
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.75Elstree School celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2023 and to commemorate the anniversary new book Elstree 175 tells iconic story of the school from 1848 to today, celebrating every aspect of such a... -
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor by Hugo Vickers 9798897101214
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £18.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897101214Author Hugo VickersFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus... -
Alice: The Story of Princess Andrew of Greece, Prince Philip's Extraordinary Mother Hugo Vickers 9781399730112
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.93'In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray cloak, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and... -
CLARISSA: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon Hugo Vickers 9781399736770
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.35Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room.'With her... -
Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529355031
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was... -
Loving Garbo: The Story of Greta Garbo,Cecil Beaton and Mercedes De Acosta by Hugo Vickers 9780712659499
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand Hotel. For half a century her apparently reclusive... -
Queen Elizabeth II: The remarkable life of our nation's most beloved monarch captured by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times by Hugo Vickers 9781529355178
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.60THE MAJOR NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE QUEEN. 'Impeccably researched . . . Hugo Vickers offers us his piercing insights into the innermost workings of the Royal family' - DAILY MAIL'The closest thing to... -
Young Elizabeth: One Extraordinary African Summer in the Life of the Princess Graham Viney 9781472143198
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Young Elizabeth captures in vivid detail perhaps the single-most important formative experience in Queen Elizabeth's life, the 1947 royal tour of southern Africa with her parents King George VI,... -
Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters by Sarah Watling
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46*A NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**WINNER OF THE TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE*'Interesting women have secrets. They also ought to have sisters.'From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier... -
Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who... -
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba 9780753827390 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.34Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis SimpsonOne of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian... -
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis SimpsonOne of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian... -
A Royal Life HRH The Duke of Kent 9781529389739
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.49'A pleasure to read... a timely reminder of the need for service' -- The Daily Telegraph'The voices and reminiscence of family and friends merge seamlessly, giving the impression of gathering round... -
A Royal Life HRH The Duke of Kent 9781529389708
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.01'A pleasure to read... a timely reminder of the need for service' -- The Daily Telegraph'The voices and reminiscence of family and friends merge seamlessly, giving the impression of gathering round... -
King Charles III by Susanna Davidson 9781805314707
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £4.76Discover the extraordinary life of King Charles III, from his birth through the historic celebrations of his coronation. Lively and easy-to-read text make this the perfect introduction for children,... -
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The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 - 2022 by James Owen 9780008581480 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £4.00From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of... -
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: Commemorating her life and reign 1926 - 2022 by James Owen 9780008581480
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £29.99From young princess to internationally revered head of state, Queen Elizabeth has always fascinated and intrigued. This fully updated second edition celebrates and remembers the glorious reign of... -
A Royal Christmas by Jeremy Archer
Booksplease Price: £8.32'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it... -
The Quest for Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330618
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £3.66'A delightful insight into an eclectic life'The Daily Telegraph'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'A complete delight,... -
The Quest for Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330625
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68* * '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... -
![Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop 9781035402427 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9717661/10734330/9781035402427__84193.1781381114.jpg?c=1 "Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop 9781035402427 [USED COPY]")
Elizabeth and Philip: The Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop 9781035402427 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.52'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero... -
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy Tessa Dunlop 9781035402465
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero... -
Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal Among the Victorian Aristocracy by Jane Dismore
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00Outrageously handsome, witty and clever, Harry Cust was reputed to be one of the great womanisers of the late Victorian era. In 1893, while a Member of Parliament, he caused public scandal by his... -
Her Lotus Year: China, The Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson Paul French 9781783968800
Booksplease Price: £8.32The revealing story of the legendary Wallis Simpson’s controversial and formative year in China in the 1920s. ‘Compelling’ Dr Amanda Foreman ‘Fascinating’ Lisa See ‘Riveting’ Anne Sebba... -
The Kaiser's Confidante: Mary Lee, the First American-Born Princess Richard Jay Hutto 9781476665726
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.84New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a princess in her own right after his death. An active... -
Lest We Forget: War in 100 British Monuments Tessa Dunlop 9780008713140
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05What monuments to conflict, and the people they commemorate, tell us about our history and ourselves. 'When you go home, tell them of us and say,... -
Cecil Beaton at Home: An Interior Life by Andrew Ginger
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £47.87Cecil Beaton (1904 1980) was one of twentieth- century Britain s Renaissance men: photographer, costume designer, set designer, playwright, creator of fashion fabrics, and writer on raffine... -
My Will: A Portrait of Love and Addiction by Nicola Vivian 9781999623265
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £10.91At what point does passion cross the border into addiction? When do our relationships with alcohol, drugs, work, food, sex, shopping, exercise or love become too much? Following the fatal heroin... -
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain Martin Williams 9781529383317
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.34A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read Martin Williams all day. He is a staggeringly communicative historian; this book throws shafts of light on... -
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture Ophelia Field 9781474605359
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.53'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial... -
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The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Ophelia Field 9781474605359 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as glamorous as she was controversial... -
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Lady in Waiting: The perfect gift for Mum on Mother's Day by Anne Glenconner 9781529359060 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.38**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive...