Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe, Paperback - Deborah Cadbury

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

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...

A social history of a fifty year period, spanning the Regency into the Victorian era

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...

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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. DescriptionWhen the legendary Romulus killed his brother Remus and founded the city of Rome in 753 BCE, Plovdiv--today the second-largest city in B...

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...

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

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...

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

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded stre...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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...

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

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

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...

Find out all about today's British royal family with this engaging seriesPublisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Julia AdamsNumber of pages:...

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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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Reducere. Minutes before 1pm on March 21st, 1893 the body of respected businessman Louis Schilling was found mutilated in the office of his Kalamazoo meat ma...

Reducere. DescriptionDecorated with a breathtaking landscape and a treasured collection of diversely styled bridges, the Merritt Parkway runs thirty-seven an...

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

Publisher: Hal Leonard Europe LimitedNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 191 x 118 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

Reducere. DescriptionThose who enjoyed the TV series The Crown will enjoy this entertaining and well-researched book which fills in the background to centuri...

Reducere. Extraordinary marriages don't just happen. They flow from grace-filled, faithful, and fruitful covenants of love.About the AuthorRyan and Mary-Rose...

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...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas CraneNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 196 x 28Cover type: Paperback / so...

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

From bronze axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader's felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. A...

Winner of the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Scholarship Marie Antoinette has remained atop the popular cultural landscape for centuries for ...