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The six wives of Henry VIII
Par 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
Par 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.)
Par 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.The royals
Par 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 road to Ubar: finding the Atlantis of the sands
Par Nicholas Clapp. 1998
A day-by-day account of two expeditions to Arabia in search of the site of the fabled city of Ubar. Inspired…
by a 1980 trip to return endangered Arabian oryxes to their native habitat, Clapp became intrigued with the legend of Ubar and obtained government radar imagery to help locate the ancient remains. Bestseller. 1998.The riddle of the Rosetta Stone: key to ancient Egypt
Par James Giblin. 1990
Before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799, Egyptian hieroglyphic writing -- composed of pictures of animals, birds, and…
geometric shapes -- was a mystery. For nearly 1400 years the meanings had been lost. The author chronicles the fascinating story of how the stone was discovered and, after countless attempts, finally deciphered by scholars. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 1990.The Queen Mother
Par Elizabeth Longford. 1981
The Queen behind the throne
Par 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
Par Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. 1982
The prince of Wales: a biography
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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 lost Ark of the Covenant: solving the 2,500 year old mystery of the fabled biblical ark
Par Tudor Parfitt. 2008
Historian-adventurer, author of "Journey to the Vanished City: The Search for a Lost Tribe of Israel", recounts his quest for…
the ancient sacred chest that once held the Ten Commandments. Parfitt begins among a remote African people who claim such a box lies in a mountain cave. 2008.The life of Elizabeth I
Par 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
Par Antonia Fraser, J. P Brooke-Little. 1995
The last Mughal: the fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857
Par 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
Par 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.