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The life of a princess isn’t all fun-filled travel, magnificent banquets, handsome princes, and beautiful clothes. It’s also devotion to duty, sacrifice for your people, and a lot of just plain hard work. And if your country happens to suffer two world wars and a Communist takeover in your lifetime, it means danger and suffering, exile and heartache as well.

In a rich and riveting narrative, Jane Dunn reveals the extraordinary rivalry between the regal cousins. It is the story of two queens ruling on one island, each with a claim to the throne of England, each embodying dramatically opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness (and views of sexuality) and divinely ordained kingship. As regnant queens in an overwhelmingly masculine world, they were deplored for their femaleness, compared unfavorably with each other and courted by the same men.

An icon remembered as vividly in death as she appeared in life, Diana, Princess of Wales, is one of the most enduring personalities of the 20th century, and one of the most enigmatic. Admired, almost worshipped, a forceful presence in society and fashion and a devoted mother, she was also plagued by rumor and scandal throughout her brief life. Using exclusive new interviews and eyewitness testimony, Sarah Bradford now casts aside the gossip and lies to separate myth from truth.

Here is the first full-scale biography of Wallis Simpson to be written by a woman, exploring the mind of one of the most glamorous and reviled figures of the 20th century, a character who figured prominently in the blockbuster film The King’s Speech. This is the story of the American divorcée notorious for allegedly seducing a British king off his throne.

Il regno dell'imperatore Shōwa, o Hirohito, fu il più longevo nella storia giapponese, sebbene anche il più controverso. Hirohito è stato in grado di guidare la sua patria nel periodo più critico, buio e rivoluzionario di sempre, quello che va dal 1926 al 1989. Le bombe atomiche su Hiroshima e Nagasaki, l'attacco a Pearl Harbor, l'inevitabile resa del Giappone: tutto contribuisce a forgiare l'immagine di un uomo integro ma al contempo fragile e discusso, schiacciato da un ruolo che non è più in grado di incarnare ma che non abbandonerà mai fino alla sua morte.

Considerada como la princesa contemporánea más recordada de la monarquía inglesa, la historia de Diana de Gales tratará sobre un personaje muy diferente al prototipo real. Casada con el príncipe Carlos, hijo de la reina Isabel II, la princesa Diana vivió una corta pero placentera vida siendo parte de la monarquía inglesa. Madre de los herederos actuales al trono, la vida de la princesa Diana se caracterizó por su frecuente trabajo social y humanitario hasta su misteriosa muerte bajo una oscura noche parisina.

La trastienda de la historia de España está llena de jugosos episodios, repletos de pasiones carnales, que alteraron el curso de los acontecimientos o los cambiaron por completo sin que oficialmente se reconozca. Marta Robles ha revisado nuestra historia en busca de todas esas aventuras amorosas y sexuales que protagonizaron reyes, reinas, mandatarios y otros poderosos: desde Rodrigo, el último rey visigodo, hasta Alfonso XIII, pasando por los demás representantes de las dinastías Astur, Borgoñona, Trastamara, Habsburgo y Borbón.

El 19 de junio de 2014 Juan Carlos I ponía fin a su reinado dejando tras de sí una vida dedicada a la consolidación de la monarquía y la democracia en España. Cuarenta años después de su llegada al trono, este libro ofrece un balance del significado de su labor en un momento crucial para la monarquía.

Spannende und unterhaltsame Geschichte für Feinschmecker - entlang der illustren Biografie Augusts des Starken erzählt! Über historische Rezepte wie beispielsweise Schnepfendreck wird lustvoll fabuliert. Vor allem lässt sich dank der sehr lebendigen und deftigen Sprache tief und genüsslich in die kulinarische Welt vor dreihundert Jahren eintauchen, am sächsischen Hof, in Versailles oder anderswo im hochadligen Europa.

Wie ein Fächer entfaltet sich ein ganzes Jahrhundert in diesem ebenso umfangreichen wie informativen und zugleich amüsanten Hörbuch. Mit verteilten Sprechrollen, Musik und Sounddesign bietet es ein spannendes und abwechslungsreiches Zeitdokument, in dem auch der Vater Queen Elizabeths, König George VI., und die Queen selbst im Originalton zu Wort kommen. Im Fokus der Erzählung steht Queen Elizabeth II. als Mensch, als Monarchin und als Institution.

Wissen Sie, was die Queen in ihrer Handtasche mit sich herumschleppt? Warum tragen Könige Kronen? Und wie angelt man sich eigentlich einen Prinzen? Alexander von Schönburg berichtet amüsant und kurzweilig über die Sitten und Marotten des Adels und lüftet die letzten Geheimnisse der europäischen Königshäuser.

Christopher Clark folgt der Karriere des letzten deutschen Kaisers: die schwierige Jugend bei Hof, die Etablierung seiner Macht sowie seine politischen Auseinandersetzungen und Ziele. Mit dem Ersten Weltkrieg und der Niederlage des Deutschen Reichs endet auch die Herrschaft Wilhelms II. Der Kaiser dankt ab und muss den Rest seines Lebens im Exil verbringen. Clarks sorgfältig recherchierte Biografie bietet eine neue, zuweilen durchaus provokative Interpretation des kontroversen Monarchen und seiner dreißig Jahre währenden Regentschaft.

Le destin historique d'un grand homme se dessine-t-il dès l'enfance ? Sabine Melchior-Bonnet montre dans ce livre audio que derrière tout héros, qu'il soit grandiose ou maudit, il y a... une mère. C'est dans les relations entre mère et fils que se joue aussi l'Histoire. Que seraient en effet Néron, François Ier, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Napoléon, mais aussi Churchill, Staline, Hitler, sans leur mère ? C'est à la restitution de ces biographies historiques sous l'angle inédit des relations entre mère et fils que s'attache ici l'auteur.

For decades Prince Philip shared the Queen’s burden of office without upstaging her, always privately providing reassurance and advice but never overstepping the boundaries of his supporting role. It was an unforgiving position - a challenge for anyone - but one that he met head on. He remained the Queen’s adviser and closest confidant and was known as such the world over. That said, he was wise enough to recognise his limitations and the constraints of his role.

For millions of people, both in Britain and across the world, Elizabeth II is the embodiment of monarchy. Her long life spans nearly a century of national and global history, from a time before the Great Depression to the era of COVID-19. Her reign embraces all but seven years of Britain's postwar history; she has been served by 15 UK prime ministers from Churchill to Johnson, and witnessed the administrations of 13 US presidents from Truman to Trump. The vast majority of Britons cannot remember a world without Elizabeth II as head of state and the Commonwealth.

A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the marquess and marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This is a true tale of love and loss, fortune and misfortune.

The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard - who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom - provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British royal family.

Diana’s Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother’s tragic death. Now, 20 years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-90s, Prince Charles is in his 70s, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten married to two remarkable women, and had children.

Now, Ingrid Seward, the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, brings her decades of experience covering the royal family to this “authoritative and thorough” (Kirkus Reviews) biography of Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, and father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the next three kings of England. From his early childhood in Paris among aristocrats and his mother’s battle with schizophrenia to his military service during World War II and marriage to Elizabeth in 1947, Seward chronicles Philip’s life and reveals his many faces.

December 1936. The king of England, Edward VIII, has given up his crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis Simpson, an American divorcée. Their courtship has been dogged by controversy and scandal, but with Edward's abdication, they can live happily ever after. But do they?