WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY AWARDNow a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period.
'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa GregoryThe dramatic untold story of the three tragic Grey sisters, all heirs to the Tudor throne, all victims to their royal blood.
When Andrew Mortons world-famous biography, Diana: Her True Story, was first published, it caused a media frenzy, and shook the British Establishment to its foundations.
Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man.
Während Nero, der Kaiser Roms, neue Siege in Olympischen Wettstreit errang und so glaubte, seine Göttlichkeit beweisen und seine Macht stabilisieren zu können, mussten Andere dafür als Bewahrer dieser Macht auftreten.
FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how the royal family really operates.
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.
For more than 70 years until his death on 9 April 2021, Prince Philip was the Queens constant companion and support, but his vital role in the monarchy too often went largely unnoticed.
George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent, when his father went mad.
When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magnificent proxy ceremony held at Richmond Palace in January 1503, no one could have guessed that this pretty, redheaded princess would go on to have a marital career as dramatic and chequered as that of her younger brother Henry VIII.
An zu vielen Orten zu viele Feuer des Widerstandes gegen Rom entzündet, stiegen die Provinzen Judäa und Lugdunensis, sowie die Militärterritorien entlang der römischen Grenze zu Germanien zu Brennpunkten bevorstehender Auseinandersetzungen auf.
The first in-depth biography of the American actress and humanitarian campaigner who married Prince Harry in May 2018, written by the worlds best-known royal biographer.
Following the royal wedding, the Diamond Jubilee and the imminent birth of Kate and Williams first baby, popular sentiment towards the royal family has rarely been higher.
Foremost medieval historian Anne Curry offers a new reinterpretation of Henry V and the battle that defined his kingship: AgincourtHenry V's invasion of France, in August 1415, represented a huge gamble.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Ends with one of the most reverberating shocks in modern crime fiction' The Sunday Times 'A dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail 'A work of genius.
'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it'What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned'Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, modern thought is unthinkable - all those whose ideas have made the modern age have worked in his shadow.
When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magnificent proxy ceremony held at Richmond Palace in January 1503, no one could have guessed that this pretty, redheaded princess would go on to have a marital career as dramatic and chequered as that of her younger brother Henry VIII.
In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, takes you behind the scenes to uncover the woman and her world.
