Queen Victoria's Matchmaking, Paperback - Deborah Cadbury

Queen Victoria's dynastically tactical puppeteering of her thirty surviving grandchildren's love lives is revealed at its full extent in this inter...

Reducere. DescriptionA captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grand...

Reducere. Cartea scriitoarei Deborah Catbury ne introduce in atmosfera stralucitoare a palatelor suveranilor Europei, de la Londra pana la Sankt Petersburg, ...

Now in paperback, this looks at the history of the British royal family during the 1930s and 1940s, as Edward VIII abandoned his throne and his you...

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters remained a close-knit family. Inevita...

Reducere. Cartea scriitoarei Deborah Catbury ne introduce in atmosfera stralucitoare a palatelor suveranilor Europei, de la Londra pana la Sankt Petersburg, ...

Reducere. Born to the chief of the Yoruba Egbado Tribe in Oke-Odan, Aina survived a raid by King Ghezo of Dahomey at a young age. Before the king could use h...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms--Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury--were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do ...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Peter J. KeatIllustration(s): 90 photographs, illustrationsNumber of pages: 96Collection: Series XPublicat...

The extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, smuggling her school and its pupils from Naz...

Reducere. Poor Queen Victoria! She loves to swim, but can't quite figure out how to get to the water without her devoted subjects glimpsing her swimming suit...

Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece...

Reducere. 'This admirable biography is a moving tribute to a prince who overcame much suffering, and it gives us a better understanding both of Victorian roy...

Reducere. DescriptionSarah Bonetta Forbes, 'Queen Victoria's African Princess', was rescued from Africa as a girl of seven after the slaughter of her family....

Reducere. From the Introduction: What were the facets of Queen Victoria's character and position that resulted in her name encapsulating the values of an ent...

This is a new history of Britain's imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Covering wars waged in Asia, New Zealand, and Africa, it traces the...

The lives and mutually supportive friendship of Queen Ena (Victoria Eugenia), consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her cousin Bee, Infanta Be...

Reducere. In 1936, the British monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era--the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The ...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Kiley DunbarNumber of pages: 368Collection: Port Willow BayPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 313 x 28Cover type: ...

An evocative telling of the life of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's last-born child, and of a sometimes fraught royal mother-daughter relationsh...

A chronicle of ten mid-Victorian trials that features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, an...

Written entirely in the first person and fully based on accurate historical accounts, Michael Farah imagines how this royal family would have descr...

Reducere. But engrossing as these small wars are--and they bristle with bizarre, tragic, and often humorous incident--it is the officers and men who fought t...

Reducere. "Gaslamp Fantasy, " or historical fantasy set in a magical version of the nineteenth century, has long been popular with readers and writers alike....

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The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal Family.Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): W T W Pot...

Reducere. Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, h...

In this sweeping, immersive novel, Clare McHugh draws readers into the mesmerizing world of the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria - Princess Vicky ...

We might love our eggs mini, but there's nothing small about our new cookbook.

Reducere. Ellen Wayles Coolidge arrived in London in June 1838 at the advent of Queen Victoria's reign--the citizens were still celebrating the coronation. D...

A highly illustrated history of one of the World's most recognised and loved brands.

The Creme de la Creme Egg of Cookbooks!

The Night That Changed Everything Helen Lacey He vowed to always be there for her... But not as her husband!

A controversial book revealing the squalid truth about Britain's highest military honour. Exposes a shameful history of racism, misogyny and politi...

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Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Thomas W. CushingIllustration(s): 100 cardsNumber of pages: 100Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 255 x 25...

Reducere. Set in a restricted area inside the Ministry of Defense, only a select few have access to "the Compound." Inside is a high-tech institution special...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angus KonstamIllustration(s): Illustrated throughout with 40 photos and 8pp of colour illustrationsN...

DescriptionMatchmaking can be murder . . . When widowed Millie Fisher moves back to her childhood home of Harvest, Ohio, she notices one thing righ...

Reducere. What would you do for your man? Would you whore for him? Victoria Gray is one of the most beautiful women to ever set foot on the hoe stroll. She g...