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The royals
By Kitty Kelley. 1997
This unauthorized biography covers the lives of the members of England's House of Windsor from 1917, when the family name…
was changed to conceal its German roots, to the 1990s and the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Kelley interviewed past and present Crown employees, royal friends and relatives, and members of Parliament. c1997.The Queen Mother
By Elizabeth Longford. 1981
The Queen behind the throne
By Michael De-la-Noy. 1994
The author examines both the achievements and the foibles of Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who has been called the most…
loved and admired member of Britain's Royal Family. The Queen Mother's influence on the monarchy has been considered decisive, but the author questions whether it has always been a force for good. 1994.The Princes of Wales
By Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. 1982
The prince of Wales: a biography
By Jonathan Dimbleby. 1994
For this remarkable study of the heir to the British throne, Jonathan Dimbleby was given unprecedented access to his subject.…
As well as spending many hours in wide ranging and candid conversations with Prince Charles, the author has interviewed scores of people, including his personal staff and close friends, most of whom have never talked openly about the prince before. The author has also drawn freely from the prince's own archives, including more than 10,000 letters, private journals and diaries, none of which have hitherto been made public. 1994.The princes in the tower
By Alison Weir. 1995
The story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the young King Edward V and his brother Richard, Duke of…
York, is one of the great mysteries of English history, one with profound moral and social consequences, and rich in drama, intrigue, treason, scandal and violence. This re-examination of the evidence - including that against the princes' uncle, Richard III, reconstructs the whole chain of events leading to their murder and sets out to reveal how, why, and by whose order they died. 1995.The Poison King: the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy
By Adrienne Mayor. 2010
Claiming Alexander the Great and Darius of Persia as ancestors, Mithradates inherited a wealthy Black Sea kingdom at age fourteen…
after his mother poisoned his father. He fled into exile and returned in triumph to become a ruler of superb intelligence and fierce ambition. Hailed as a savior by his followers and feared as a second Hannibal by his enemies, he envisioned a grand Eastern empire to rival Rome. After massacring eighty thousand Roman citizens in 88 BC, he seized Greece and modern-day Turkey. Fighting some of the most spectacular battles in ancient history, he dragged Rome into a long round of wars and threatened to invade Italy itself. His uncanny ability to elude capture and surge back after devastating losses unnerved the Romans, while his mastery of poisons allowed him to foil assassination attempts and eliminate rivals. Descriptions of violence. 2010.The pebbled shore: the memoirs of Elizabeth Longford
By Elizabeth Longford. 1986
This autobiography by the author of "Queen Victoria" and "Elizabeth R" includes her memories of Oxford in the 1920s, her…
political involvement in the '30s and '40s, and her life as wife to the Count of Longford, and mother to Rachel Billington and Antonia Fraser, also a royal biographer. 1986.The monarchy: an oral biography of Elizabeth II
By Deborah H Strober, Gerald S Strober. 2002
A biography consisting of interviews with over one hundred friends and associates of the Royal Family. They paint a rich…
portrait of the private and the public life of Queen Elizabeth II, beginning with her birth and continuing through to 2002. 2002.The lost Tudor princess: a life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
By Alison Weir. 2016
A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement…
of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI. 2016.The life of Elizabeth I
By Alison Weir. 2003
No English monarch had a greater influence on his or her people than Queen Elizabeth I. Yet despite her extremely…
public life, she closely guarded her secrets, which are finally revealed in this epic biography. The Life of Elizabeth I is history at its most entertaining and thought-provoking. 2003.The lives of the kings & queens of England
By Antonia Fraser, J. P Brooke-Little. 1995
The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
By William Dalrymple. 2007
On a dark evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin is buried in eerie silence. There are no lamentations or…
panegyrics, for the British Commissioner in charge has insisted, 'No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Mughals rests.' This Mughal is Bahadur Shah Zafar II, one of the most tolerant and likeable of his remarkable dynasty who found himself leader of a violent and doomed uprising. The Siege of Delhi was the Raj's Stalingrad, the end of both Mughal power and a remarkable culture. 2007.The last Stuarts: British royalty in exile
By James Lees-Milne. 1983
A readable account of the luckless Stuart dynasty, featuring the fates of Mary Queen of Scots, Charles I of England,…
and other ancestors of these monarchs. The Scottish-born family supplied England with four kings and two queens. 1984, c1983.The lady in the tower: the fall of Anne Boleyn
By Alison Weir. 2009
The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in May 1536 was unprecedented in English history.…
Anne was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 2 May 1536, and tried and found guilty of high treason on 15 May. Her supposed crimes included adultery with five men, one her own brother, and plotting the King's death. Alison Weir has reassessed the evidence, demolished many romantic myths and popular misconceptions, and rewritten the story of Anne's fall, creating a detailed portrait of the dramatic last days of one of the most influential and important figures in English history. 2009.The King's war 1641-1647
By C. V Wedgwood. 1983
"The King's War" takes the story of the great rebellion from 1642-1647. During these years the great battles of Marston…
Moor and Naseby were fought, Rupert emerged as the King's chief general and Montrose conducted his brilliant but forlorn campaign in Scotland. On the parliamentary side the death of Pym was followed by the rise of Cromwell, both in parliament and in the field. Here for the first time "the ordinary people" had an organization through which they could make their influence felt on the politics of the nation. Sequel to "The King's peace, 1637-1641" (DC30908). 1983.The kings and queens of England: a tourist guide
By Jane Murray. 1974
Napoleon: soldier of destiny
By Michael Broers. 2019
All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words. This…
is the first that makes full use of his newly released personal correspondence. 2019.Young Prince Philip: his turbulent early life
By Philip Eade. 2011
The author recounts the prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a strikingly colourful…
milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies. 2011.L'empereur et la comédienne
By Joan Haslip, Pierre Charras. 1985
François-Joseph, empereur d'Autriche, fut amoureux de la comédienne Katharina Schratt. Cette relation, encouragée par l'impératrice Sissi, commença en 1885 et…
dura jusqu'à la mort du vieil homme, trente ans plus tard. 1985. Titre uniforme: Emperor & the actress.