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The Royal Book Of Lists An Irreverent Romp Through British Royal History
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Book Synopsis The Royal Book of Lists by : Matt Richardson
Download or read book The Royal Book of Lists written by Matt Richardson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again! Even Queen Victoria herself would be amused (not to mention astonished) by the hundreds of revelations to be found within The Royal Book of Lists. Covering over a thousand years of royal history, this fascinating book tells the often turbulent story of a nation and an empire through those privileged few who came to embody it. In the process, author Matt Richardson has succeeded in highlight all the triumphs, tragedies, and of course the scandals that are central to this rich heritage. Balanced, in-depth, frequently irreverent but always compelling, The Royal Book of Lists has something to interest everyone. Coming as it does in time for Queen Elizabeth II’s Golden Jubilee, the book stands as a timely and accessible introduction to Britain’s - and Canada’s - royal family.
Download or read book Seeds of Time written by kc dyer and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Darrell Connor is a troubled girl, still haunted by the motorcycle accident that took her father's life and part of her leg three years ago. She is not pleased when her worried mother sends her to board at Eagle Glen School for the summer. But there is a sense of mystery at the school that appeals to Darrell, and as she investigates, she finds adventure and begins to form a few tentative friendships. When she stumbles upon a passage through time, she begins to wonder - is it possible to change her own past?
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Download or read book The Royal Book of Lists An Irreverent Romp Through British Royal History written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you've already heard everything there is to know about the royal family - think again! Even Queen Victoria herself would be amused (not to mention astonished) by the hundreds of revelations to be found within The Royal Book of Lists. Covering over a thousand years of royal history, this fascinating book tells the often turbulent story of a nation and an empire through those privileged few who came to embody it. In the process, author Matt Richardson has succeeded in highlight all the triumphs, tragedies, and of course the scandals that are central to this rich heritage. Balanced, in-depth, frequently irreverent but always compelling, The Royal Book of Lists has something to interest everyone. Coming as it does in time for Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee, the book stands as a timely and accessible introduction to Britain's - and Canada's - royal family.
Book Synopsis The Royal Book of Lists by : Matt Richardson
Download or read book The Royal Book of Lists written by Matt Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covering over a thousand years of royal history, Matt Richardson highlights the triumphs, tragedies, and scandals that are central to this rich heritage."
Book Synopsis The Royal Book of Lists by : Matt Richardson
Download or read book The Royal Book of Lists written by Matt Richardson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering over a thousand years of royal history, Matt Richardson highlights the triumphs, tragedies, and scandals that are central to this rich heritage.
Book Synopsis Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand by : Pavin Chachavalpongpun
Download or read book Love and Death of King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand written by Pavin Chachavalpongpun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines two aspects of the abbreviated reign of King Ananda Mahidol (1935-1946), or King Rama VIII, of the current Chakri dynasty of Thailand. First, it discusses the royal family’s plot to thwart a romantic relationship between the young king, Ananda, and his Swiss girlfriend, Marileine Ferrari, a daughter of a famous pastor of Lausanne, Switzerland. Interracial marriage, particularly with Westerners, has been strictly forbidden for Thai kings or heirs apparent. The restriction stems from the interwoven connection between sexual relationship and the security of the throne. The second part investigates the mysterious death of King Ananda, a long-held taboo topic in Thailand. Although the two events were not specially related, both in their own way served to unavoidably shake the position of the monarchy and hence threaten its existence. The palace’s reactions to these events demonstrated its continuous search to maintain its power and ultimately to warrant its survival.
Book Synopsis The Dundurn Group by : The Dundurn Group
Download or read book The Dundurn Group written by The Dundurn Group and published by Dundurn. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Book Review Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Royal Affairs written by Leslie Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts-history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII's alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain's history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive.
Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Book of Royal Useless Information by : Noel Botham
Download or read book The Book of Royal Useless Information written by Noel Botham and published by MetroBooks. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling authors Noel Botham and Bruce Montague irreverently present everything you could ever possibly want to know about the Royals - and a little bit more!
Book Synopsis English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable by : Lacey Baldwin Smith
Download or read book English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable written by Lacey Baldwin Smith and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here at last is a history of England that is designed to entertain as well as inform and that will delight the armchair traveler, the tourist or just about anyone interested in history. No people have engendered quite so much acclaim or earned so much censure as the English: extolled as the Athenians of modern times, yet hammered for their self-satisfaction and hypocrisy. But their history has been a spectacular one. The guiding principle of this book's heretical approach is that "history is not everything that happened, but what is worth remembering about the past.. . .". Thus, its chapters deal mainly with "Memorable History" in blocks of time over the centuries. The final chapter "The Royal Soap Opera," recounts the achievements, personalities and idiocies of the royal family since the arrival of William the Conqueror in 1066. Spiced with dozens of hilarious cartoons from Punch and other publications, English History will be a welcome and amusing tour of a land that has always fascinated Anglophiles and Anglophobes alike.
Download or read book Quill & Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Right Royal History by : Terrance Dicks
Download or read book A Right Royal History written by Terrance Dicks and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Book of Royal Lists by : Craig Brown
Download or read book The Book of Royal Lists written by Craig Brown and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Unusual Journey Through Royal History by : Victoria Martinez
Download or read book An Unusual Journey Through Royal History written by Victoria Martinez and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your typical royal history book. The table of contents reads more like a menu at a good restaurant, where there's something for everyone's taste. Each chapter tells a unique story about an overlooked or unusual aspect of royal history, spanning centuries and countries, but in no particular order. From first to last, they will take you on a journey through royal history you've probably never seen or thought of before. In few - if any - other books will you find the British Monarchy compared to London's sewer system, or read of the challenges of finding a suitable husband for a 200-plus pound Victorian princess who was nonetheless a "remarkably light dancer." Rarely are the lives of historic and modern royals from Queen Victoria and Catherine the Great to Prince Charles and Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark "illustrated" not by paintings but by tattoos. In addition to countries like Britain and France, readers will visit lesser known monarchies such as Bohemia, where the descendents of "Good King Wenceslas" ruled for centuries. In short (much like the Court dwarfs you'll read about), this book will leave you with a sense that you not only know royal history - and enjoy it - but that you have also journeyed through it and know the royals personally, from who exterminates their palaces right down to their infamous last words.
Book Synopsis Behind the Throne by : Adrian Tinniswood
Download or read book Behind the Throne written by Adrian Tinniswood and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis. A masterful and witty social history of five centuries of royal life, Behind the Throne offers a grand tour of England's grandest households.
