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Book News June 2019
An Audience with Queen Victoria: The Royal Opinion on 30 Famous Victorians Paperback – 1 March 2019 (UK) & 1 June 2019 (US) During her 63-year reign Queen Victoria met everyone from Charlotte...
View ArticleVictoria, Portrait of a Queen by Richard Mullen & James Munson Book Review
The year 2019 marks the bicentenary of Queen Victoria, and although plenty of new books are being released for the occasion, there is also a steady stream of books being reprinted; like Victoria,...
View ArticleThe Tragic Daughters of Charles I: Mary, Elizabeth & Henrietta Anne by...
King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France married in 1625 and they went on to have nine children together. Of their five daughters, three survived passed infancy; Mary, Elizabeth, and...
View ArticlePocahontas and the English Boys: Caught between Cultures in Early Virginia by...
Pocahontas was born circa 1596 as the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tribes in the Tidewater region of Virginia. She was credited with saving the life of a Colonist John...
View ArticleThe Brave Princess and Me by Kathy Kacer Book Review
Princess Alice of Battenberg was born on 25 February 1885 as the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and By Rhine. Her great-grandmother Queen Victoria was present...
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Book News July 2019
Meet Me in Monaco: A Novel of Grace Kelly’s Royal Wedding Hardcover –23 July 2019 (US & UK) Movie stars and paparazzi flock to Cannes for the glamorous film festival, but Grace Kelly, the biggest...
View ArticleQueen Victoria – Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow by Lucy Worsley Book Review
It is nearly impossible to miss the fact that we are celebrating 200 years since Queen Victoria’s birth and one of the new books this year is by Lucy Worsley, who is also the chief curator at Historic...
View ArticleThe Young Victoria by Deirdre Murphy Book Review
Kensington Palace is celebrating the birth of Queen Victoria within their walls 200 years ago with two exhibitions – Victoria: Woman and Crown and Victoria: A Royal Childhood. Accompanying the...
View ArticleIra: The Life and Times of a Princess by Nicholas Foulkes Book Review
Princess Ira von Fürstenberg was born on 18 April 1940 as the daughter of Prince Tassilo zu Fürstenberg and his first wife, Clara Agnelli. At the tender age of 15, she was swept off her feet by the...
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Book News August 2019
Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918 Hardcover – 20 August 2019 (US) & 30 June 2019 (UK) In Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and...
View ArticleThe Reign of Queen Victoria by Hector Bolitho Book Review
Originally published in 1948, The Reign of Queen Victoria by Hector Bolitho was republished in time for Queen Victoria’s bicentenary. The book surprisingly begins with the relationship between Prince’s...
View ArticleFrom Tyranny to Freedom – Memoirs of My Life by Countess Viktoria-Luise of...
Countess Viktoria-Luise of Solms-Baruth was born on 13 March 1921 as the daughter of Count Hans of Solms-Baruth and Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. On 25 January...
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Book News September 2019
Four Queens and a Countess: Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown Paperback – 15 September 2019 (UK) & 1 January 2020 (US) When...
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Book News October 2019
Long Live the Queens: Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Monarchs History’s Forgotten Hardcover – 17 October 2019 (UK & US) Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of...
View ArticleGood Queen Anne by Judith Lissauer Cromwell Book Review
Anne, Queen of Great Britain has lately had somewhat of a resurgence in popularity – largely owing to the 2019 film The Favourite. Perhaps the least known of the British reigning Queens, Anne had a...
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Book News November 2019
The Prince & I: My Life with Prince Bira of Siam Paperback – 12 November 2019 (US) & 7 October 2019 (UK) The Prince & I is the story of the passionate love of Bira, Prince of Siam,...
View ArticleKatherine Howard: Henry VIII’s Slandered Queen by Conor Byrne Book Review
Katherine Howard was still in her teens when she became the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. After the death of Jane Seymour, Henry remarried to Anne of Cleves on 6 January 1540 and Catherine was chosen...
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Book News December 2019
The Faith of Queen Elizabeth Hardcover – 31 October 2019 (UK) & 3 December 2019 (US) Discover the inspiring spiritual legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning monarch in British history....
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Victoria & Albert: Our Lives in Watercolour Book Review
Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert were enthusiastic patrons of watercolour painting. They were also avid practitioners. They eventually had a collection of thousands of paintings, including...
View ArticleElizabeth Widville, Lady Grey: Edward IV’s Chief Mistress and the ‘Pink...
Elizabeth Woodville (or Widville, as used by the author of this book) was Queen of England as the wife of King King Edward IV of England during turbulent times. As a slightly older widow with two sons...
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