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Book Synopsis King Edward VII and His Court by : Lionel Cust
Download or read book King Edward VII and His Court written by Lionel Cust and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Edward VII and His Court by : Lionel Cust
Download or read book King Edward VII and His Court written by Lionel Cust and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Coronation of King Edward VII by : Great Britain. Court of Claims
Download or read book Coronation of King Edward VII written by Great Britain. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Edward VII and His Court; Some Reminiscences by : Lionel 1859-1929 Cust
Download or read book King Edward VII and His Court; Some Reminiscences written by Lionel 1859-1929 Cust and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Edward VII and His Jewish Court by : Anthony Allfrey
Download or read book Edward VII and His Jewish Court written by Anthony Allfrey and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Edward and His Court by : Thomas Hay Sweet Escott
Download or read book King Edward and His Court written by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Edward VII and His Court. Some Reminiscences. [With a "Memoir of Sir Lionel Cust," by Hon. Lady Sybil Cust. With Plates Including Portraits.]. by :
Download or read book King Edward VII and His Court. Some Reminiscences. [With a "Memoir of Sir Lionel Cust," by Hon. Lady Sybil Cust. With Plates Including Portraits.]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Heir Apparent written by Jane Ridley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE BOSTON GLOBE This richly entertaining biography chronicles the eventful life of Queen Victoria’s firstborn son, the quintessential black sheep of Buckingham Palace, who matured into as wise and effective a monarch as Britain has ever seen. Granted unprecedented access to the royal archives, noted scholar Jane Ridley draws on numerous primary sources to paint a vivid portrait of the man and the age to which he gave his name. Born Prince Albert Edward, and known to familiars as “Bertie,” the future King Edward VII had a well-earned reputation for debauchery. A notorious gambler, glutton, and womanizer, he preferred the company of wastrels and courtesans to the dreary life of the Victorian court. His own mother considered him a lazy halfwit, temperamentally unfit to succeed her. When he ascended to the throne in 1901, at age fifty-nine, expectations were low. Yet by the time he died nine years later, he had proven himself a deft diplomat, hardworking head of state, and the architect of Britain’s modern constitutional monarchy. Jane Ridley’s colorful biography rescues the man once derided as “Edward the Caresser” from the clutches of his historical detractors. Excerpts from letters and diaries shed new light on Bertie’s long power struggle with Queen Victoria, illuminating one of the most emotionally fraught mother-son relationships in history. Considerable attention is paid to King Edward’s campaign of personal diplomacy abroad and his valiant efforts to reform the political system at home. Separating truth from legend, Ridley also explores Bertie’s relationships with the women in his life. Their ranks comprised his wife, the stunning Danish princess Alexandra, along with some of the great beauties of the era: the actress Lillie Langtry, longtime “royal mistress” Alice Keppel (the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker Bowles), and Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Winston. Edward VII waited nearly six decades for his chance to rule, then did so with considerable panache and aplomb. A magnificent life of an unexpectedly impressive king, The Heir Apparent documents the remarkable transformation of a man—and a monarchy—at the dawn of a new century. Praise for The Heir Apparent “If [The Heir Apparent] isn’t the definitive life story of this fascinating figure of British history, then nothing ever will be.”—The Christian Science Monitor “The Heir Apparent is smart, it’s fascinating, it’s sometimes funny, it’s well-documented and it reads like a novel, with Bertie so vivid he nearly leaps from the page, cigars and all.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “I closed The Heir Apparent with admiration and a kind of wry exhilaration.”—The Wall Street Journal “Ridley is a serious scholar and historian, who keeps Bertie’s flaws and virtues in a fine balance.”—The Boston Globe “Brilliantly entertaining . . . a landmark royal biography.”—The Sunday Telegraph “Superb.”—The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book KING EDWARD VII written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward VII written by Catharine Arnold and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Victorian England: We know what that was supposed to mean — all priggish prudery and "we-are-not-amused" harrumphing. Except now we know it wasn't all that . . . [Catharine Arnold’s] new biography focuses — deliciously — on the women who shared the scandalously plentiful sex life of Queen Victoria's eldest son, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII.” —USA Today Edward Prince of Wales, better known as “Bertie,” was the eldest son of Queen Victoria. Charming and dissolute, he was a larger-than-life personality with king-size appetites. A lifelong womanizer, Bertie conducted his countless liaisons against the glittering backdrop of London society, Europe, and the stately homes of England in the second half of the 19th century. Bertie’s lovers were beautiful, spirited, society women who embraced a wide field of occupations. There was Lillie Langtry, the simple Jersey girl who would become an actress and producer; “Daisy” Brooke, Countess of Warwick, the extravagant socialite who embraced socialism and stood for Parliament as a Labour party candidate; bisexual French actress Sarah Bernhardt, celebrated for her decadent appeal and opium habit; and by total contrast the starchy Agnes Keyser, who founded a hospital for army officers. One of Bertie’s most intriguing liaisons was with American heiress Jennie Churchill, unhappy wife of Sir Randolph Churchill and mother of Sir Winston. While the scandals resulting from his affairs—from suicides to divorces—were a blight on the royal family, Bertie would become a surprisingly modern monarch. His major accomplishment was transforming the British monarchy into the modern institution that we know today and ensuring its survival in a period when every other European dynasty collapsed in the wake of WWI.
Book Synopsis KING EDWARD AND HIS COURT by : T. H. S. ESCOTT
Download or read book KING EDWARD AND HIS COURT written by T. H. S. ESCOTT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edward VI written by Chris Skidmore and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIII In the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed of intrigue since the last days of Henry VIII. Without an adult monarch, the stakes were even higher. The first challenger was the duke's own brother: he seduced Henry VIII's former queen, Katherine Parr; having married her, he pursued Princess Elizabeth and later was accused of trying to kidnap the boy king at gunpoint. He was beheaded. Somerset ultimately met the same fate, after a coup d'etat organized by the Duke of Warwick. Chris Skidmore reveals how the countrywide rebellions of 1549 were orchestrated by the plotters at court and were all connected to the (literally) burning issue of religion: Henry VIII had left England in religious limbo. Court intrigue, deceit and treason very nearly plunged the country into civil war. Edward was a precocious child, as his letters in French and Latin demonstrate. He kept a secret diary, written partly in Greek, which few of his courtiers could read. In 1551, at the age of 14, he took part in his first jousting tournament, an essential demonstration of physical prowess in a very physical age. Within a year it is his signature we find at the bottom of the Council minutes, yet in early 1553 he contracted a chest infection and later died, rumours circulating that he might have been poisoned. Mary, Edward's eldest sister, and devoted Catholic, was proclaimed Queen. This is more than just a story of bloodthirsty power struggles, but how the Church moved so far along Protestant lines that Mary would be unable to turn the clock back. It is also the story of a boy born to absolute power, whose own writings and letters offer a compelling picture of a life full of promise, but tragically cut short.
Book Synopsis King Edward and His Court (Classic Reprint) by : T. H. S. Escott
Download or read book King Edward and His Court (Classic Reprint) written by T. H. S. Escott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from King Edward and His Court Royalty's personal friends - The Duke of Cambridge - The Duke of Connaught - T he King in private life - The King as head of society The Duke and Duchess of Argyll - The Countess of Cadogan - Enlarged ideas of English society - Royalty and learning-king Edward's atti tude towards the Church. 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.
Book Synopsis King Edward and His Court by : T H S Escott
Download or read book King Edward and His Court written by T H S Escott and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1903 Edition.
Download or read book Coronation of King Edward VII written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis King Edward in His True Colours by : Edward Legge
Download or read book King Edward in His True Colours written by Edward Legge and published by London : E. Nash. This book was released on 1912 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Boyhood of a Great King, 1841-1858 by : Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Download or read book The Boyhood of a Great King, 1841-1858 written by Alexander Meyrick Broadley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: