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September 2017 Book News
The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I Hardcover – 30 September 2017 (UK) & 2 January 2018 (US) Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June...
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Princess Diana Book – 20th Anniversary Edition Book Review and Giveaway
Around the 20th anniversary of Diana death, plenty of new and re-issued books are appearing. One that stood out for me was the Princess Diana 20th Anniversary Book from Historic Newspapers, which is a...
View ArticleRemembering Diana: A Life in Photographs Book Review
Twenty years after her death, this dazzling photography collection with a foreword by bestselling author Tina Brown celebrates Princess Diana’s poignant life in more than 100 iconic images. For the...
View ArticleThe Wandering Princess by Edward Hanson Book Review
Hélène was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but closely connected with the court of Queen Victoria. After the premature end to a romance with Victoria’s grandson, she married into the royal...
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October 2017 Book News
Catherine of Aragon: An Intimate Life of Henry VIII’s True Wife Paperback – 15 October 2017 (UK) & 1 February 2018 (US) Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she...
View ArticleMa’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown Book Review
From our funniest writer, a portrait of our most talked-about royal She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol...
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Book News April 2018
Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III Hardcover – 30 April 2018 (UK) & 2 August 2018 (US) Wife to Richard, Duke of York, mother to Edward IV and Richard III, and aunt to the famous Kingmaker ,...
View ArticleInside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra by Kate...
Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the...
View ArticleThe First Iron Lady: A Life of Caroline of Ansbach by Matthew Dennison Book...
Often compared to Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, Caroline of Ansbach is the great queen Britain forgot it had – a thinker, politician, schemer, patroness and matriarch. This brilliant book offers...
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Book News May 2018
An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew Paperback – 1 April 2018 (US) & 1 May 2018 (UK) The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new America who became...
View ArticleSisters to the King by Maria Perry Book Review
Although in the Tudor age Henry VIII’s sisters Margaret and Mary were considered more important personalities than his six wives, they had less of the contemporary limelight . . . until Maria Perry...
View ArticleThe Quest for Queen Mary (edited) by Hugo Vickers Book Review
Queen Mary, the widow of George V, and grandmother of the Queen, died at Marlborough House on 24 March 1953, a few months before the Coronation. She was eighty-five years old. Unusually for a Queen...
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Book News June 2018
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, Filthy Palaces, and Murder Most Foul Hardcover- 12 June 2018 (US & UK) The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal...
View ArticlePrincess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts by Christopher Warwick Book Review
As a pre-war royal whose world was hugely circumscribed by the strictures of another age, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life. She helped usher the monarchy...
View ArticleMargaret Tudor: Queen of Scots by Sarah-Beth Watkins Book Review
Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII’s older sister and became the Queen of Scotland after her marriage to James IV in 1503. Her life was troubled and fraught with tension. She was continually caught between...
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A Tale of Two Queens: “Mary Stuart” by Friedrich Schiller
The name Friedrich Schiller rings a bell in almost everyone in the German-speaking part of Europe. For many, Schiller’s dramas and poetry were firm components of the German lessons at school, and...
View ArticleQueen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign by Tim Ewart Book Review
Former ITV Royal Editor Tim Ewart looks at the life and reign of the woman who has become one of the United Kingdom’s best-loved monarchs, Queen Elizabeth II. With many unique images from the Royal...
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Book News July 2018
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan Hardcover – 3 July 2018 (US) & 3 August 2018 (UK) Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Her legend still lives, but her story was...
View ArticleNeslishah: The Last Ottoman Princess by Murat Bardakçi Book Review
Twice a princess, twice exiled, Neslishah Sultan had an eventful life. When she was born in Istanbul in 1921, cannons were fired in the four corners of the Ottoman Empire, commemorative coins were...
View ArticleGiveaway – The Race to Save the Romanovs
History of Royal Women has been given three copies of The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport to give away! Fill in the Rafflecopter below for a chance to win! Please note that the giveaway is...
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