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A fresh and vivid account of the unexplored relationship between two of England's best-known queens - from the bestselling author of The Stolen Crown and The House of Boleyn 'This joint biography of these two queens reads as good as any ripping yarn and is well worth five stars.' - READER REVIEW...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the global phenomenon that tells an unforgettable story of love, loss, courage, and healing. “Compellingly artful . . . [a] blockbuster memoir.”—The New Yorker (Best Books of the Year) It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ENTITLED, 'THE MOST DEVASTATING ROYAL BIOGRAPHY EVER WRITTEN', DAILY MAIL THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021 'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning portrait of the Windsors' Daily Mail 'Book of...

This acclaimed best seller from popular historian Alison Weir is a fascinating look at the Tudor family dynasty and its most infamous ruler. The Six Wives of Henry VIII brings to life England’s oft-married monarch and the six wildly different but equally fascinating women who married him. Gripping from the first sentence to the last and loaded with fascinating details, Weir’s rich history is a perfect blend of scholarship and entertainment.

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the relentless media scrutiny and controversies of their 2022 Caribbean Tour to the shock cancer diagnoses of both the Princess of Wales and the King, this captivating biography by acclaimed royal journalist Russell Myers intimately traces the story of William and...

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Read by David Mitchell. A funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame. Think you know your kings and queens? Think again. Taking us right back to King Arthur...

Fürstin Gloria hat sich als öffentliche Person in zahllosen Interviews zu verschiedensten Themen geäußert und gilt bis heute ob ihrer klaren Standpunkte häufig als »umstritten«. Mit diesem Hörbuch, das in ihrem Sommerschloss am Starnberger See aufgenommen wurde, zieht sie nun ein umfassendes Resümee ihrer Überzeugungen und Sichtweisen, ob über Adel und Manieren, Demokratie und Populismus, Gender und Migration oder Glaube und Lebensfreude.

Com vaig arribar a ser rei és una crònica historicoliterària única i excepcional. Són les memòries del rei Jaume I el Conqueridor narrades per ell mateix, amb la fluïdesa de l'oralitat i un estil fresc i vívid que interpel·la oients i lectors. El llibre recull aquests episodis i els primers anys de vida, en què el monarca pren consciència del seu lloc en el món, i es perfila la figura que esdevindrà llegendària.

For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.

The second volume of David Hume's classic survey of English history covers nearly 300 years (1200-1485) from the long reign of Henry III to the dramatic end of Richard III on Bosworth Field—he was the last Plantagenet, and the last king of England to die in battle. In telling this all-action tale, Hume delves deeply into contemporary records and presents a considered, even sympathetic view, showing that many factors, not just personalities, resulted in dramatic consequences for the nation.

María Antonieta nació en Viena en 1755, hija del emperador austríaco Francisco I y de María Teresa. En mayo de 1770 contrajo matrimonio, cuando tenía catorce años, con Luis XVI de Francia. De nuevo la destreza de Stefan Zweig para el retrato y su...

Triumph and tragedy, love and loss, murder and malice in the lives of five fifteenth-century queens The fifteenth century was a turbulent age: the Hundred Years War between England and France, and the Wars of the Roses dominated the lives of people both inside and out of the royal courts. Joan...

*With a foreword by former BBC Royal Correspondent Jennie Bond* The touching and ground-breaking story of the Queen's childhood as told by her nanny, revealing the royal family's life before The Crown. Now, more than ever, the Royal Family's private lives are no longer private. Marion Crawford...

SOON TO BE THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON The bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of the 16th century Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the future...

Lancater and York is a riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, from beloved historian Alison Weir. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York was characterised by treachery, deceit, and bloody battles. Alison Weir's lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history. At the centre of the book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to political chaos, and his wife Margaret of Anjou, who took up her arms in her husband's cause and battled in a violent man's world.

En 1898, Sissi était assassinée à Genève par un anarchiste italien. Depuis, l'impératrice d'Autriche et reine de Hongrie est devenue un mythe. Souveraine à la beauté légendaire, fantasque et solitaire, elle a inspiré peintres, poètes, psychanalystes, cinéastes. Voici la Sissi historique, cette princesse bavaroise qui, en 1854, épouse l'empereur François-Joseph. À Vienne, on la critique ; à Budapest, sous le prénom d'Erszébet, on la vénère, car elle défend le nationalisme magyar contre l'emprise autrichienne.

This brilliant new audiobook explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst. The Plantagenets – their story is the story of Britain. England’s greatest royal dynasty, the Plantagenets, ruled over England through eight...

Bracing honesty, rare insight and hilarious revelations from Princess Margaret's former Lady in Waiting as she shares everything she's learned from her extraordinary and unexpected life. THE FOLLOW-UP MEMOIR TO THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LADY IN WAITING: 'AS GLORIOUS AND HIGHLY READABLE AS ITS...