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William and Kate: a royal love story
By Christopher P Andersen. 2011
Prince William and Kate Middleton defied all odds to forge a storybook romance amid the scandals, power struggles, tragedies, and…
general dysfunction that are the hallmarks of Britain's Royal Family. Relates their families' backgrounds, including William's bond with his mother Princess Diana. Describes Kate and William's meeting while students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Explicit strong language, descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. c2011.Wallis Simpson was the woman for whom England's Edward VIII famously abdicated his throne. But her whole story has yet…
to be told. From new sources and records comes this fresh portrait. 2018.Si Lady Diana et Dodi Al-Fayed n'étaient pas morts, cette nuit du 30 août 1997, ils auraient vécu villa Windsor,…
près de Paris... Quelques heures avant le tragique accident, la princesse et son amant visitent secrètement cet hôtel particulier de Neuilly, là où fleurissent les jardins de Bagatelle. La demeure a déjà accueilli un autre couple de proscrits illustres : le roi d'Angleterre Édouard VIII et Wallis Simpson, une Américaine deux fois divorcée pour qui, le 11 décembre 1936, le souverain décida d'abdiquer afin de devenir simplement le duc de Windsor. Les vies qui se sont succédé ici dessinent une histoire singulière de l'Europe où se croisent Renée Van Cleef, l'héritière de la célèbre maison, Adolf Hitler pour qui le duc de Windsor eut une sympathie qu'il paiera cher, Winston Churchill, Coco Chanel, lord Mountbatten, le prince Charles et, bien sûr, la reine Élisabeth. Sans oublier Charles de Gaulle qui occupa la Villa à la Libération et s'amusa même à y entreposer la voiture du Führer. Quatre-vingts ans après l'abdication d'Édouard VIII, vingt ans après la mort de Lady Di, les derniers témoins, des voisins, des amis de toujours, des employés fidèles des Windsor, ont confié à Bertil Scali leurs souvenirs de cette époque révolue. 2016.Victoria: Queen And Empress (Immortals of history)
By Neil Grant. 1970
Victoria and her daughters
By Nina Epton. 1971
Une dame de l'ombre à la cour de Russie
By Louis Beroud. 2005
Tutankhamen: the life and death of the boy-king
By Christine El Mahdy. 1999
Egyptologist examines archaeological and historical evidence to reconstruct the life of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh. El Mahdy separates fact from…
legend as she describes Egyptian civilization based on evidence from Luxor in the fourteenth century B.C. Also provides details of British archaeologist Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb. 1999.Truffes royales: histoire des animaux de cour
By Danièle Momont, Katharine MacDonogh. 2008
Jamais encore n'avait été publiée une véritable histoire des animaux de cour, surtout des chiens, bien qu'abondent témoignages, anecdotes et…
oeuvres d'art mêlant princes et bêtes. Ces compagnons à truffe se sont toujours révélés les plus fidèles des sujets pour leurs maîtres couronnés. Ils furent en outre des substituts de parents, d'enfants ou d'amis dans des familles royales où les émotions intimes trouvaient difficilement à s'exprimer entre humains. 2008. Titre uniforme: Reigning cats and dogs.Traitors of the tower (2010 Quick Reads Series)
By Alison Weir. 2010
More than four hundred years ago, seven people - five of them women - were beheaded in the Tower of…
London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? This book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. 2010. (2010 Quick Reads Series)To the scaffold: the life of Marie Antoinette
By Carolly Erickson. 1991
Time change: an autobiography
By Hope Cooke. 1980
Theodora: portrait in a Byzantine landscape
By Antony Bridge. 1978
Biography of the brilliant and beautiful actress and notorious courtesan, Theodora. She caught the eye of the future Emperor Justinian…
who ruled the Roman world from 527 to 565. Considered by many to be one of the most fascinating women in Western history, Bridge believes she held a central position in politics, was consulted on temporal and ecclesiastical affairs, and was in fact the power behind the throne. 1984, c1978.There are still kings: the ten royal families of Europe
By Laure Boulay de La Meurthe, Linda Danneberg, Françoise Jaudel. 1984
Sampling of gossipy tidbits revealed about the royal households of England, Monaco, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and…
Liechtenstein. Includes the historical background of each family. 1984. Uniform title: Il est encore des rois.The young Victoria
By Alison Plowden. 1981
Victoria's early years at Kensington Palace where she was brought up by her German mother in an atmosphere of family…
feuds, her succession to the throne at the age of 18 and marriage to Albert when she was twenty. 1981.The woman he loved
By Ralph G Martin. 1973
A dramatic account of the famous couple, Wallis Warfield of Baltimore and King Edward VIII of England, before and after…
the king's abdication. The author reveals how their romance affected families, friends, adversaries, and lovers. 1974, c1973.The Windsor secret: new revelations of the Nazi connection
By Peter Allen. 1983
It is well-known that the Duke of Windsor was a Nazi sympathizer, and met with Hitler and Goring in 1937.…
In this book, Allen looks at this meeting, but also includes the disclosure of a 1940 meeting in Lisbon between the Duke of Windsor and Hess. c1983. Uniform title: Crown and the swastikaThe unruly queen: the life of Queen Caroline
By Flora Fraser. 1996
The six wives of Henry VIII
By Alison Weir. 1991
A collective biography of the six women who were married to Henry VIII. Weir gives a flavour of life in…
Tudor England and tells of the ceaseless plotting in and around the royal court during a reign which was tempestuous and bloody, yet extraordinary in its tone and influence. 1991.The secret file of the Duke of Windsor
By Michael Bloch. 1988
Using secret papers from the Duke of Windsor's archives, confided many years ago to his lawyers with a view to…
publication eventually, this book sets out to tell the whole story of his exile, his bitter relationship with his family and his passionate but unsuccessful efforts to return to England with the woman he loved. It sheds new light on the paradoxical role of royalty in the modern world. 1988.The Royal family at war (Charnwood Large Print Ser.)
By Theo Aronson. 1993
This is a very readable account of the contribution made to the United Kingdom during World War II, not only…
by George VI and Queen Elizabeth, but also by the entire royal family. These contributions strengthened and popularized the monarchy. 1993.