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Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465556710
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The King's Favourite written by Marjorie Bowen and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532797880
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The King's Favourite written by Marjorie Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England, 1604. Fourteen-year-old Frances Howard is trickrd into falling in love with the handsome Robin Carr, 'The King's Favorite', so a certain member of court can control the Throne. There is one problem though - Frances is already married. Frances and Robin, however, fall madly and deeply in love, shocking everyone and throwing the plot into chaos. Caught up in a storm of lies, betrayal, witchcraft, and murder, Frances and Robin remain oblivious to the dangers around them and are willing to do anything to be together, including kill anyone who tries to get in their way. Set during the turbulent reign of King James I, 'The King's Favourite' by Marjorie Bowen takes readers behind the scenes of court intrigue more deadly than the Tudor Court. 'The King's Favourite' is based on the true and shocking story of Frances Howard, an English noblewoman who was the central figure in a famous scandal and murder during the reign of King James I. Fans of Philippa Gregory will love this book. Marjorie Bowen was born in 1885 on Hayling Island in Hampshire. She and her sister grew up in poverty, but Bowen was eventually able to study at the Slade School of Fine Art and later in Paris. Her first novel, the violent historical 'The Viper of Milan' (written when she was 16) was rejected by several publishers, who considered it inappropriate for a young woman to have written such a novel. It went on to become a best-seller when eventually published. Her total output numbers over 150 volumes with the bulk of her work under the 'Bowen' pseudonym. She also wrote under the names Joseph Shearing, George R. Preedy, John Winch, Robert Paye and Margaret Campbell. Bowen died on 22 December 1952, after suffering serious concussion as a result of a fall in her bedroom. Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.
Author : Susan Holloway Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451224064
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The King's Favorite written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darling? BRNell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy beauty, she swiftly rises from the poverty of Covent Garden to become a sensation in the theater. Still in her teens, she catches the eye of King Charles II, and trades the stage for Whitehall Palace-and the role of royal mistress. Even though she delights the king, she must learn to negotiate the cutthroat royal court, where ambition and lust for power rule the hearts of all around her. For beneath her charm and light-heartedness, Nell has her own ambition-to become no less than the king's favorite.
Author : Susan Holloway Scott
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101211849
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The King's Favorite written by Susan Holloway Scott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Duchess and Royal Harlot returns with the unforgettable story of a king's last love and London's darling? BRNell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy beauty, she swiftly rises from the poverty of Covent Garden to become a sensation in the theater. Still in her teens, she catches the eye of King Charles II, and trades the stage for Whitehall Palace-and the role of royal mistress. Even though she delights the king, she must learn to negotiate the cutthroat royal court, where ambition and lust for power rule the hearts of all around her. For beneath her charm and light-heartedness, Nell has her own ambition-to become no less than the king's favorite.
Author : Philip Gibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book King's Favourite written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Lawrance Bickley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Kings' Favourites written by Francis Lawrance Bickley and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henriette Plienow
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640340191
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The King's Favourites written by Henriette Plienow and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2.0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Shakespeare's History Plays, language: English, abstract: This paper’s aim is to analyse and compare the kings Edward II and Richard II as depicted in Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s plays with special attention to their relationships to their favourites. It cannot, however, take the historical figures of Edward II and Richard II into consideration as this would exceed the paper’s focus. There are many parallels between the two plays. Each is about a king who is deposed and murdered, and in each the barons accuse the king’s favourites of having manipulated the sovereign to serve their own political advantage. In both plays, the issue of homosexuality comes up: Edward has a homosexual relationship with his favourite Gaveston, Henry Bolingbroke accuses Bushy and Green of having seduced Richard politically as well as sexually and of thus having misled him as a ruler and destroyed the king’s marriage. The question comes up if both kings’ relationships to their peers really are – as we understand it today – of a homosexual nature. If so: were the favourites accused of having a negative influence on the kings because of their homosexuality? Is homosexuality in itself a charge heavy enough to depose a king? To answer this, chapter two will explain the Elizabethan view on homosexuality, which differs significantly from our own contemporary understanding. Even though the historical settings of both plays are in the Middle Ages, they will be examined from an early modern point of view since they were both written by Elizabethan playwrights for a contemporaneous audience. Subsequent chapters will examine and compare homosexuality within both plays and analyse which role it plays in connection with questions of power and the barons’ revolts.
Author : Anne O'Brien
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101586672
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The King's Concubine written by Anne O'Brien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child born in the plague year of 1348, abandoned and raised within the oppressive walls of a convent, Alice Perrers refused to take the veil, convinced that a greater destiny awaited her. Ambitious and quick witted, she rose above her obscure beginnings to become the infamous mistress of Edward III. But always, essentially, she was alone... Early in Alice’s life, a chance meeting with royalty changes everything: Kindly Queen Philippa, deeply in love with her husband but gravely ill, chooses Alice as a lady-in-waiting. Under the queen’s watchful eye, Alice dares to speak her mind. She demands to be taken seriously. She even flirts with the dynamic, much older king. But she is torn when her vibrant spirit captures his interest...and leads her to a betrayal she never intended. In Edward’s private chambers, Alice discovers the pleasures and paradoxes of her position. She is the queen’s confidante and the king’s lover, yet she can rely only on herself. It is a divided role she was destined to play, and she vows to play it until the bitter end. Even as she is swept up in Edward’s lavish and magnificent court, amassing wealth and influence for herself, becoming an enemy of his power-hungry son John of Gaunt, and a sparring partner to resourceful diplomat William de Windsor, she anticipates the day when the political winds will turn against her. For when her detractors voice their hatred,and accusations of treason swirl around her,threatening to destroy everything she has achieved, who will stand by Alice then? Includes a readers guide
Author : Brandon Sanderson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0765376679
Total Pages : 1013 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Way of Kings written by Brandon Sanderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 1013 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery, and a woman who is desperate to save her impoverished house.
Author : Kathryn Warner
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526715635
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II written by Kathryn Warner and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of Englands eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wifes uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most powerful man in the country in the 1320s. For years he dominated the English government and foreign policy, and took whatever lands he felt like by both quasi-legal and illegal methods, with the kings connivance. His actions were to bring both himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly responsible for the first forced abdication of a king in English history; he had made the horrible mistake of alienating and insulting Edwards queen Isabella of France, who loathed him, and who had him slowly and grotesquely executed in her presence in November 1326.
Author : Caroline Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857821062
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Camilla written by Caroline Graham and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eventyret om hvordan den uskyldige ungdomsforelskelse mellem overklassepigen Camilla og prinsen af Wales udviklede sig til en kærlighedshistorie der - foreløbig - har varet i 25 år
Author : Caroline Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780263100396
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The King's Favourite written by Caroline Martin and published by . This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Chronicle of the Kings of England written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Dodsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Chronicle of the Kings of England from William the Norman to the Death of George III written by Robert Dodsley and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Half-hours with the Kings and Queens of England written by William Henry Giles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nora Sakavic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517198008
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The King's Men written by Nora Sakavic and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Josten is out of time. He knew when he came to PSU he wouldn't survive the year, but with his death right around the corner he's got more reasons than ever to live.Befriending the Foxes was inadvisable. Kissing one is unthinkable. Neil should know better than to get involved with anyone this close to the end, but Andrew's never been the easiest person to walk away from. If they both say it doesn't mean anything, maybe Neil won't regret losing it, but the one person Neil can't lie to is himself.He's got promises to keep and a team to get to championships if he can just outrun Riko a little longer, but Riko's not the only monster in Neil's life. The truth might get them all killed-or be Neil's one shot at getting out of this alive.
Author : Richard Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Chronicle of the Kings of England written by Richard Baker and published by . This book was released on 1670 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
