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Author : Allan Fea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)
Download or read book James II. and His Wives written by Allan Fea and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Fea
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498071482
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (714 download)
Download or read book James II and His Wives written by Allan Fea and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.
Author : Allan Fea
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265409732
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book James II. and His Wives (Classic Reprint) written by Allan Fea and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from James II. And His Wives We do not undertake the responsibility of an attempt to Whitewash the last Stuart king, our aim being to present him as he appeared to his con temporaries, and to give prominence to the side-lights of his history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Allan Fea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (457 download)
Download or read book James II. and His Wives, by Allan Fea ... written by Allan Fea and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1473872650
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Imprisoned Princess written by Catherine Curzon and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-04-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This royal biography of the 17th century princess and mother of King George II recounts an epic tale of privilege, passion, scandal, and disgrace. When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privilege, she hated the groom she called “pig snout” and wept at news of her engagement. When she arrived in the austere court of Hanover, the vibrant young princess found herself ignored and unwanted—while her husband openly gallivanted with his mistress. Then Sophia Dorothea plunged into a dangerous affair with the dashing soldier Count Phillip Christoph von Königsmarck, a man as celebrated for his looks as his bravery. When he and Sophia Dorothea fell in love, they were dicing with death. Watched by a scheming countess who had ambitions of her own, it was only a matter of time before scandal gripped the House of Hanover. In the end, Sophia Dorothea was divorced, disgraced, and locked away in a gilded cage for 30 years—whilst her lover faced an even darker fate.
Author : James Houston Baxter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Marriage of James II. (Signé : J. H. Baxter). written by James Houston Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Holloway Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101443162
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Countess and the King written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Sedley lived by her own rules and loved who she pleased- until she became the infamous mistress of King James II... London, 1675: Born to wealth and privilege, Katherine is introduced to the decadent court of King Charles II, and quickly becomes a favorite from the palace to the bawdy playhouses. She gleefully snubs respectable marriage to become the Duke of York's mistress. But Katherine's life of carefree pleasure ends when Charles II dies, and her lover becomes King James II. Suddenly she is cast into a tangle of political intrigue, religious dissent, and ever-shifting alliances, where a wrong step can mean treason, exile, or death at the executioner's block. As the risks rise, Katherine is forced to make the most perilous of choices: to remain loyal to the king, or to England.
Author : John Callow
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479881
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book James II written by John Callow and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMES II was Britain’s last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But what of his life after this? What became of him during his final exile? John Callow’s groundbreaking study focuses on this hitherto neglected period of his life: the twelve years he spent attempting to recover his crown through war, diplomacy, assassination and subterfuge. This is the story of the genesis of Jacobitism; of the devotion of the fallen king’s followers, who shed their blood for him at the battle of the Boyne and the massacre at Glencoe, gave up estates and riches to follow him to France, and immortalised his name in artworks, print, and song. Yet, this first ‘King Over the Water’ was far more than a figurehead. A grim, inflexible warlord and a maladroit politician, he was also a man of undeniable principle, which he pursued regardless of the cost to either himself or his subjects. He was an author of considerable talent, and a monarch capable of successive reinventions. Denied his earthly kingdoms, he finally settled upon attaining a heavenly crown and was venerated by the Jacobites as a saint. This powerful, evocative and original book will appeal to anyone interested in Stuart history, politics, culture and military studies.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The History of England from the Accession of James II. written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Macaulay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of England from the Accession of James II written by Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Haile
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Queen Mary of Modena written by Martin Haile and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mary of Modena (Maria Beatrice Anna Margherita Isabella d'Este; 5 October [O.S. 25 September] 1658 ? 7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1718) was Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of King James II and VII. A devout Catholic, Mary became, in 1673, the second wife of James, Duke of York, who later succeeded his older brother Charles II as King James II. Mary was uninterested in politics and devoted to James and her children, two of whom survived to adulthood: the Jacobite claimant to the English, Scottish and Irish thrones, James Francis Edward Stuart, known as "The Old Pretender", and Princess Louise Mary."--Wikipedia.
Author : Susan Dunn-Hensley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319632272
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria written by Susan Dunn-Hensley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna’s religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria’s illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy.
Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Macauley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The History of England from the Accession of James II. written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macauley and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Porter
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466858486
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Royal Renegades written by Linda Porter and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen “Rich, perceptive, and creative.” In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king’s six surviving children is far less familiar. Casting new light on the heirs of the doomed king, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, and rivalries for the first time. As their family life was shattered by war, Elizabeth and Henry were used as pawns in the parliamentary campaign against their father; Mary, the Princess Royal, was whisked away to the Netherlands as the child bride of the Prince of Orange; Henriette, Anne’s governess, escaped with the king’s youngest child to France where she eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d’Orleans. When their "dark and ugly" brother Charles eventually succeeded his father to the English throne after fourteen years of wandering, he promptly enacted a vengeful punishment on those who had spurned his family, with his brother James firmly in his shadow. A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.
Author : David Jones
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Life of James II. written by David Jones and published by . This book was released on 1703 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Callow
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Making of King James II written by John Callow and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of King James II offers an appraisal of his career prior to 1685, examining his roles as soldier, administrator, and entrepreneur. It shows how his failure to harness political support effectively destabilized English politics.
Author : Christine McGladdery
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853652
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book James II written by Christine McGladdery and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the reign of James II of Scotland, the king is viewed in the context of the Stewart monarchy, from his struggles to overcome his early adversity and the legacy of his father's style of kingship, to the serious political crises of his reign. The relations between the king and his subjects, and the complex balance of power in medieval Scotland are examined, particularly the significant crisis precipitated by James II's attack on the Black Douglases, the greatest of all late medieval magnate families. The changing nature of political involvement among the nobility and the role of Parliament in influencing events are explored, as are the efforts of the king to recover and promote royal authority in the final years of his reign. The role of James II in the wider European context is also studied with a view to shedding light on contemporary perceptions of the Stewart monarchy both at home and abroad. The study is based on contemporary chronicle and official sources, and consideration is also given to later, highly coloured views of James II, which have influenced popular views of the king to the present day.
