Her Majesty Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary
by Marie Louise Wallersee-Wittelsbach
In 1801, at the age of just 20 years old, Ranjit Singh became the Maharaja of the Punjab Empire and subsequently became one of the greatest figures in the history of India. He was a fiercely brave leader, capturing the city of Lahore before becoming Maharaja and overcoming a variety of challenges during his 40-year rule, such as harsh terrain, an ethnically and religiously diverse population and strong aggressors including the British and the Afghans. Despite such challenges, Ranjit Singh was ab...
Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals (Lives & Letters S.)
by Victoria, Queen of Great Britain
This revealing selection from the Queen's papers provides essential clues to her character, tracing her development from shy princess to the formidable and uncompromising grande dame of Europe. How did she feel on hearing that she had become queen? How close was she to her eldest grandchild, who became Kaiser Wilhelm II? Why was she so reluctant to yield the crown to her son and heir, the future King Edward VII? What did she really think of Gladstone and Disraeli? These questions and many more a...
History of King Charles the Second of England (Collected Works of Jacob Abbott, #16)
by Jacob Abbott
Royal Style Wars
by Andrienne Lowery, Lesley Ebbetts, and Adrienne Lowery
This account traces a year of contrasting fashion identities and styles of the Duchess of York and the Princess of Wales, discussing their changing and emerging personalities, their roles and images. From wedding dresses to skiing outfits, Royal Ascot to family holidays, here is an examination of the very different tastes of these two high-profile young women - highlighted by their relationships with designers and their feelings towards one another's clothes - seen against their own views of the...
Following a youth of poverty and bitter exile after his father's execution, the ousted king first challenged, then made his magnificent escape from, Cromwell's troops before he was eventually restored to his throne in triumph in 1660.Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.
Charles I: A Life of Religion, War and Treason
by Christopher Hibbert
William Tallon, who died in 2007, was a shopkeeper's son from the Midlands who worked for the Queen Mother for more than fifty years and became her most trusted servant. Known as 'Backstairs Billy', he was charming, amusing, occasionally bitchy - and extremely promiscuous. As a child growing up in relative poverty in Coventry, Billy thought working for the royal family would be hugely glamorous. As a teenager he sent letters to the royal household begging to be taken on. It was a shock, howeve...
Vivid account of courage in air-to-air combat over Europe Amazing and dramatic true story of a prince in battle Driven by intense hatred for the Soviet Union - the Bolsheviks murdered his uncle in 1917 and the secret police later executed his father - Prince Leonidas Maximciuc, nephew of the Russian tsar, joined up with Romanian and Free Russian forces in 1942 at the age of sixteen. Already a budding fighter pilot, the young prince began a career in which he scored fifty-two aerial victories, de...
Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century (Records of Western Civilization)
-- Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Virginia
Definitive, concise, and very interesting...From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless decades.' - Hilary Mantel'The Brothers York is savage, exciting, blisteringly good.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors'An epic orgy of colour and character.' - Leanda de Lisle, The Times...
The King's Advocate
by Simone De Noaillat-Ponvert and Mary Golden Donnelly
The Historie and Life of King James the Sext. Written Towards the Latter Part of the Sixteenth Centu
by John Colville and Malcolm Laing