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Book News August 2018
Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II Hardcover – 1 June 2018 (US) & 1 August 2018 (UK) In November 2017 the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary. As...
View ArticleTo Free the Romanovs: Royal Kinship and Betrayal in Europe 1917-1919 by...
When Russia erupted into revolution, almost overnight the pampered lifestyle of the Imperial family vanished. Within months many of them were under arrest and they became “enemies of the Revolution and...
View ArticleWallis in Love: The Untold Life of the Duchess of Windsor, the Woman Who...
Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish and particular girl from Baltimore. At turns imaginative, ambitious, and...
View ArticleJackie, Janet & Lee by J. Randy Taraborrelli Book Review
“Do you know what the secret to happily-ever-after is?” Janet Bouvier Auchincloss would ask her daughters Jackie and Lee during their tea time. “Money and Power,” she would say. It was a lesson neither...
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Book News September 2018
Elizabeth Revealed: 500 Facts about the Queen and Her World Hardcover – 26 September 2018 (UK) & 31 October 2018 (US) Elizabeth Revealed is a lively and affectionate celebration of The Queen’s...
View ArticleFour Queens and a Countess: Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady...
When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and...
View ArticleDaughters of the Winter Queen by Nancy Goldstone Book Review
From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter...
View ArticleFounder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians by Margaret...
Alfred the Great’s daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon princess. The first Saxon woman ever to rule a kingdom, Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, led her army in battle against Viking...
View ArticleThe Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine,...
The story of poison is the story of power. For centuries, royal families have feared the gut-roiling, vomit-inducing agony of a little something added to their food or wine by an enemy. To avoid...
View ArticleBehind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household by...
Monarchs: they’re just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the...
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Book News October 2018
The First Iron Lady Paperback – 18 October 2018 (UK) History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest...
View ArticleAnne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s Unwanted Wife by Sarah-Beth Watkins Book Review
Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was never brought up to be a queen yet out of many possible choices, she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife....
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Book News November 2018
My Husband and I: The Inside Story of the Royal Marriage Paperback – 20 November 2018 (US) & 5 April 2018 (UK) When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval...
View ArticleThe Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport Book Review
The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world, and its aftershocks still reverberate today. In Putin’s autocratic Russia, the Revolution itself is considered a crime, and its...
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My Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria’s Life Through Her Letters And Journals-...
Alexandrina Victoria – Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and Empress of India- has been commonly portrayed as a sombre matriarch dressed in her widow’s black. Here, however in collected extracts from...
View ArticleMy Husband and I by Ingrid Seward Book Review
When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn’t without complications. The romance between the sailor prince and...
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Book News December 2018
Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians Hardcover – 30 August 2018 (UK) & 3 December 2018 (US) Alfred the Great’s daughter defied all expectations of a well-bred Saxon...
View ArticleMeghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton Book Review
Morton goes back to Meghan’s roots to uncover the story of her childhood growing up in The Valley in Los Angeles, her studies at an all-girls Catholic school, and her fraught family life-a painful...
View ArticleHitler and the Habsburgs: The Führer’s Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals...
Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler’s obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanished empire, a dead archduke, and...
View ArticleAn American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew by Annejet van der Zijl...
Allene Tew was born in Wisconsin on 7 July 1872 as the daughter of banker Charles Henry Tew and Janet Smith. Allene was famously married five times and owes her claim to royalty by her fourth marriage...
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