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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser  Synopsis More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history. This reissue of her biography explores all areas of her life, particularly her time in France, her marriages...
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Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by Stephen Budiansky Publisher Comments Queen Elizabeth I and Englands First Spymaster Sir Francis Walsinghams official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was Englands first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant...
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by Julia Fox Publisher Comments In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and...
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Mary Queen of Scots
by Antonia Fraser Synopsis Author of Marie Antoinette She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her...
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The Life of Elizabeth I
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I reigned prosperously for more than forty years, from 1558 until her death in 1603. During her rule, however, she remained an extremely private person, keeping her own...
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The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty (Dynasties)
by Jeremy Black Publisher Comments In The Hanoverians, one of Britain's most widely read historians, Jeremy Black, presents a detailed look at the long reign of this family's scandal-plagued reigning dynasty from the eighteenth to the early nineteenth century, including four King Georges...
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Queen Isabella (06 Edition)
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed,...
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The Princes in the Tower
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments "A SURPRISINGLY FRESH AND TREMENDOUSLY THOROUGH CONTRIBUTION to the debate...Weir's book is, no doubt, not the last on this subject, but it might be the best....[She] constructs a devastating case...[and] brilliantly illuminates the nature of late...
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The Wars of the Roses
by Alison Weir Publisher Comments "Weir does a masterful job of leading the layman through the entwined family trees of England's powerful families and the many usurpers to the throne. . . . [She] has perfected the art of bringing history to life." --Chicago Tribune Lancaster and York...
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Nell Gwyn : Mistress To a King (05 Edition)
by Charles Beauclerk Publisher Comments Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England’s great folk heroines, a woman who rose from an impoverished, abusive childhood to become King Charles II’s most...
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The Firm: The Troubled Life of the House of Windsor
by Penny Junor Publisher Comments The House of Windsor: Is it a hangover from the past, an expensive anachronism, a relic of a bygone age of deference and hierarchy, or is it as important and relevant as ever? However you look at it, the royal family is a big business, though one with...
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Kings & Queens of Ancient Britain: The Magnificent Chronicle of the First Rulers of the British Isles, from the Time of Bouddica and King Arthur to th
by Charles Phillips Synopsis Britain's royal history brought to life with 200 contemporary and historical illustrations, maps, shields and comprehensive genealogical tables.The royal history of the kings and queens of Britain continues to fascinate, and this outstanding visual...
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
by John Guy Publisher Comments The eminent British historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Guy draws on sources as...
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Edward VII: The Last Victorian King
by Christopher Hibbert Publisher Comments To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was “poor Bertie,” to his wife he was “my dear little man,” while the President of France called him “a great English king,” and the German Kaiser condemned him as “an old...
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Edward V: the Prince in the Tower
by Michael Hicks Publisher Comments The Prince in the Tower. The first biography of the king whose fate remains one of the greatest mysteries in English history....
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The Kings & Queens of Britain (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by John Cannon Publisher Comments This brand new dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish monarchs, the entries are ordered in...
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God Save the Queen!
by Peter Street Publisher Comments This is a wide ranging and fascinating insight into British life fifty years ago....
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (P.S.)
by David Starkey Publisher Comments An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man's world, passionately sexualand#8212;though, as she maintained, a virginand#8212;Elizabeth I is famed as England's most successful ruler. David Starkey's brilliant new biography...
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With the Heart of a King: Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the Fight for a Nation's Soul and Crown
by Benton Patterson Publisher Comments Philip II of Spain, the most powerful monarch in sixteenth-century Europe and a ferocious empire-builder, was matched against the dauntless queen of England, Elizabeth I, determined to defend her country and thwart Philip's ambitions. Philip had...
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Elizabeth the Great
by Elizabeth Jenkins Synopsis This biography illuminates in great detail the personal and private life of Elizabeth I, placing the lives of the Queen and her court within the historical context of 16th-century Britain....
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