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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)By Carolly Erickson. 1991
By Hope Cooke. 1980
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.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.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.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.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 swastikaBy Flora Fraser. 1996
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.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.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.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.By Elizabeth Longford. 1981
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.By Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. 1982
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.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.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.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.