Extrait : " L'histoire est par elle-même si incertaine et si facilement falsifiée et défigurée, que je n'aime pas les romans historiques ; mais je rendais justice à l'auteur de tant de brillantes peintures de mœurs et de caractères.
Extrait : "Vers 1834, dans un salon madrilène, où l'avait introduit l'amitié de Mérimée et dont il était devenu le fidèle visiteur, Stendhal faisait sauter sur ses genoux une enfant fort jolie, née sous le ciel de Grenade et dont la grâce espiègle plaisait à son regard.
Extrait : "Un grand poète Allemand a dit « qu'un moment de bonheur n'est pas payé trop cher, même au prix de la mort, » mais une longue vie de tortures et de douleurs est une compensation trop forte pour un court instant de félicité.
Extrait : "J'étais las de la vie oisive et turbulente de Paris, de la foule des petits-maîtres, des mauvais livres imprimés avec approbation et privilège du roi, des cabales des gens de lettres, des bassesses et du brigandage des misérables qui déshonoraient la littérature.
The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse'Gripping.
The official book to the Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning Netflix drama, The Crown, with extensive research, additional material and beautifully reproduced photographs.
With her glossy dark hair, classic looks, natural appearance and cut-glass accent, Kate Middleton displays all the poise and breeding expected from the wife-to-be of the heir to the throne.
"e;Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power"e;-Abraham LincolnThroughout history, all monarchs have lived with the strange dichotomy of simultaneously being human and more than human.
Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Imagine Wolf Hall rewritten by John le Carr .
Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse?
On 16 November 2010, the long-awaited engagement of HRH Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton was formally announced, with a London wedding taking place on April 2011.
Since their fairy-tale wedding in 2011 and the announcement in December 2012 that William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were expecting their first child, the British have taken the young couple into their hearts.
Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born in 1866 of Victoria and Albert's children, and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944.
A timely celebration of the many attributes our Queen brings to the nation fortitude, stoicism, diplomacy, family values, sense of fun and style among them.
An historical and folklore-based biography of King James IV, exploring the survival legends which followed the Scottish king's defeat at the battle of Flodden in 1513.
In Elizabeth I's Last Favourite, Sarah-Beth Watkins brings to life the story of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, the young upstart courtier who was the stepson of her most famous love, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
Sisters of the infamous 'Princes in the Tower', the daughters of Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV survived the reign of Richard III and even thrived into the Tudor Age.
Now the second-longest-reigning monarch after Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria ruled at the height of Britain's power on the world stage and was a symbol of stability at home and abroad.
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ENTITLED, 'THE MOST DEVASTATING ROYAL BIOGRAPHY EVER WRITTEN', DAILY MAILTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling.