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$8Diana, A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People’s Princess by J. DaviesThis book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via disco...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$755The History of the Life and Reign of Lewis XIV King of France and Navarre 3 Volu…Full contemporary speckled sheep (joints cracked, extremities lightly worn, one volume split along spine at signature K) gilt labels, old bookplates, name of fly on each. Cover almost detached from vol I. Worming affecting margins of only 2 leaves in one volume but a very clean set.Visit Store 0 0 -
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$12The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life by Charles HighamWallis, the Duchess of Windsor, was one of the most famous women in history, the American divorcee who captured the King of England, Edward VIII, and cost him his throne. Until Charles Higham's 1.3 million-copy bestseller, much of her life was a glamorous mystery. Now, fifteen years later, major new...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$9Bonnie Prince Charlie: Charles Edward Stuart by Frank McLynnWho was this man Charles Edward Stuart who became known to legend as Bonnie Prince Charlie? Frank McLynn pursues this fascinating question in his highly acclaimed study of the "Young Pretender," whose unsuccessful challenge to the Hanoverian throne was followed by the crushing defeat at Culloden in...Visit Store 0 0 -
$11Annals of the Reign of George III: Volume I by John AikinGeorge III was born in 1738, and came to the throne in 1760, marrying his wife Charlotte in 1761 and producing with her no fewer than fifteen children. George was afflicted with porphyria, a painful disease which disrupted his reign as early as 1765, and following further attacks of "madness," went...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$10Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens by Jane DunnThis is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties. At its core were their rival claims to the throne of England.Distinguished biograp...Visit Store 0 0 -
$72Eleanor of Aquitaine, by the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison WeirIntroduced by Richard Barber. Frontispiece and 28 pages of tipped in colour illustrations. Three maps. Bound in gold buckram blocked with a design. 505pp. 26x18.5cm.Visit Store 0 0 -
$10Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mot…Counting One's Blessings: Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother William ShawcrossVisit Store 0 0 -
$9Elizabeth I by Anne SomersetGlitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contempora...Visit Store 0 0 -
$14The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World by Shelley Puhak“A well-researched and well-told epic history. The Dark Queens brings these courageous, flawed, and ruthless rulers and their distant times back to life."--Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times-bestselling author of Hidden FiguresThe remarkable, little-known story of two trailblazing women in the E...Visit Store 0 0 -
$11King George V by Kenneth RoseThe Whitbread (and Wolfson and Yorkshire Post) Prize Winning account of the king whose life spanned the centuries. Grandfather of the present Queen, George V bridged the century from the 'glories' of the Victorian and Edwardian eras through the horrors of the Great War. His life is recounted here dr...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$10The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy (Oxford Illustrated Histo…The rich pageant of Britain's history emerges nowhere more colorfully than in the story of its kings and queens. This spectacular book offers the most authoritative account of the British monarchy ever published for the general reader. With over 400 illustrations--a third of them in color--it traces...Visit Store 0 0 -
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$12The Duchess of Windsor and Other Friends: An Illustrated Biography by Diana MosleyDiana Mosley is the last intimate friend of the Duchess of Windsor still alive. In this revised and updated biography, she addresses the latest allegations of secret service reports about the Windsors' conduct during the war and the abdication. A new chapter has been added.Visit Store 0 0 -
$8Elizabeth Revised and Updated: A Biography Of Her Majesty The Queen by Sarah BradfordSarah Bradford's Elizabeth is the definitive biography of the Queen, revealing the real woman behind the public figure - now celebrating her 90th birthday Sarah Bradford unravels Elizabeth's family secrets - how she was influenced by her father; her troubled relationships with her children; the stor...Visit Store 0 0 -
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