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| Eleanor of Aquitaine's extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French... Philip II of Spain—ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known—has been viewed in a harsh and negative light...
Edward II (1284–1327), King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine, was the object of ignominy during his lifetime and... The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been handsome, perhaps even recently; but now his face was swollen and disfigured...
The fifty-year reign of one of England's most charismatic leaders is assessed in this lucid and incisive work. W.M. Ormrod traces... King John long ago acquired the epithet 'Bad', and he is reputed to be the worst of England's kings. Before his death in 1216, his...
Which 'ill-prepared' monarch was on the English throne at the turn of the last millenium? How many English monarchs have been crowned on... Coronations are very public occasions, typically seen as meticulously planned formal ceremonies where everything runs smoothly. But...
On the evening of 9 March 1566, a raiding party forced their way into the palace of Holyrood House and stabbed Italian secretary, David... Shortly before 5pm on Saturday 1 September 1928 Europe gained a new kingdom and its only Muslin king: 32-year-old Zog I of Albania. Zog I...
Civil war and the battle for the English Crown dominated the reign of King Stephen, and this popular account is the only complete account... Elizabeth I was the last English monarch truly to rule the nation; she inherited a weak and divided kingdom yet relentlessly fashioned it...
Charles V (1500-1558), King of Spain (1516-1556) and Holy Roman Emperor (1519-1556) is one of the most interesting and perplexing of the... Of all bad men in a bad time… [Buckingham was] perhaps the worst, without shame, honour or decency.' George Villiers, 2nd Duke of...
A chronological account of the princesses and consort Queens of the Georgian era. From Sophia who died shortly before she would have... Ub 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any...
Was Diana murdered? Was the British Royal family involved? Was she pregnant and engaged to Dodi? Did the paparazzi or 'a blinding white... This is a story that has long needed to be told - an account of the tragic lives of the last crowned Tsar of Russia's four daughters: the...
Philip II of Spain—ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known—has been viewed in a harsh and negative light... In this new biography of one of the most intriguing figures of early modern European history, Retha Warnicke, widely regarded as a...
A readable and absorbing account of the great Emperor Justinian detailing the social structure of sixth-century Byzantium and Justinian's... Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil...
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