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Author : Christopher Warwick
Publisher : London : A. Barker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Two Centuries of Royal Weddings written by Christopher Warwick and published by London : A. Barker. This book was released on 1980 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101159774
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Notorious Royal Marriages written by Leslie Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry comes a funny and delightful history of the royal weddings and marriages of Europe’s most famous—and infamous—monarchs. This edition includes bonus chapters! “An irresistible combination of People magazine and the History Channel.”—Chicago Tribune Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love—and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia’s Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici—all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England’s Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge... Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe—from the Angevins to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry—and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all.
Author : Emily Brand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747811393
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Royal Weddings written by Emily Brand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of royal weddings, from Henry I to Prince William and Kate Middleton. Royal nuptials are always a cause for excitement both at home and abroad, and never more so than when the couple in question are young, glamorous and bathed in the glow of genuine romance. But the meaning invested in royal weddings, and the manner in which they are conducted, have changed dramatically as ideals have shifted about the monarchy and about marriage itself. This book charts almost a thousand years of British royal weddings, from Henry I – whose bride was believed by many to be a runaway nun – through Henry VIII's six attempts at matrimony, to the highly public weddings of recent years including that of Prince William and Kate Middleton as well as the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. It explores the traditions, symbols and rituals of the ceremonies themselves as well as the popular festivities and commemorative wares that have become a central means of marking the event.
Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908759763
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Royal Weddings, A Very Peculiar History written by Fiona Macdonald and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the echo of regal church bells still ringing in the ears of royalists and well-wishers worldwide, Fiona Macdonald take a look at the quirky, odd and downright bizarre circumstances surrounding the weddings of the kings, queens, princes and princesses of Britain. One must leave one's sense of decorum at the palace gates as the author tells the wacky stories surrounding the preparations, dresses, ceremonies and national moods that went with the excitement of a royal wedding, from England's resident marriage addict Henry VIII, through Anne Hyde, the 'commoner' who birthed two queens, right up to Prince Charles, Princess Diana and their son and daughter-in-law to be. Featuring facts, figures and family trees, Royal Weddings, A Very Peculiar History is sure to keep one in the spirit of things, even after the last fleck of confetti has touched the ground.
Author : David Elliot Cohen
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1402796706
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book William & Catherine written by David Elliot Cohen and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the fairytale romance and historic wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in this volume of more than 200 spectacular photographs. Few events capture the worlds heart and imagination like a British royal wedding. Through more than two hundred photographs—including 80 pages of their wedding alone—William & Catherine recounts the couple’s wildly different childhoods, their romance and engagement, the events leading up to the wedding, and the grand affair itself. Here are the massive crowds lining the parade route, the sparkling celebrities at Westminster Abbey, the brides spectacular gown, “The Kisses” on the Buckingham Palace balcony, and the worldwide celebrations. Also included is a brief pictorial history of British royal weddings from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840 to Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981. With informative and fascinating captions, as well as a foreword by renowned royal watcher Robert Jobson, this book magnificently illustrates the pomp, the pageantry, the history and enchantment of the romance that charmed the world.
Author : Janette McCutcheon
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624001
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Royal Weddings Through Time written by Janette McCutcheon and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Henry VIII and his numerous wives to Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, every major royal wedding is covered in this unique pictorial book.
Author : Blythe Gifford
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 1474006000
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Whispers At Court (Mills & Boon Historical) (Royal Weddings, Book 2) written by Blythe Gifford and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Make an Unlikely Alliance... Lady Cecily scorns the French hostages held at court. Treated as honoured guests, the men play at love games – and Cecily fears that her mistress, the Princess, might be disgraced.
Author : James Panton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810874970
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy written by James Panton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy provides a chronology starting with the year 495 and continuing to the present day, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is a must for anyone interested in the British monarchy.
Author : Kate Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605988928
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Young Elizabeth written by Kate Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the young princess did not know the role that her future would hold. She was our accidental Queen.Elizabeth's determination to share in the struggles of her people marked her out from a young age. Her father initially refused to let her volunteer as a nurse during the Blitz, but relented when she was 18 and allowed her to work as a mechanic and truck driver for the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. It was her forward-thinking approach that ensured that her coronation was televised, against the advice of politicians at the time.Kate Williams reveals how the 25-year-old young queen carved out a lasting role for herself amid the changes of the 20th century. Her monarchy would be a very different one to that of her parents and grandparents, and its continuing popularity in the 21st century owes much to the intelligence and elusive personality of this remarkable woman.
Author : Mary Christopher
Publisher : Century
ISBN 13 : 9780712601269
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Royal Wedding written by Mary Christopher and published by Century. This book was released on 1982 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. L. d'Avray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107062500
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Dissolving Royal Marriages written by D. L. d'Avray and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a chronological and geographical study of royal divorce cases from the Middle Ages through to the Reformation period.
Author : Lynne Bell
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459714342
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Queen and Consort: Elizabeth and Philip written by Lynne Bell and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact" -- so said the nineteenth-century writer Walter Bagehot. In 2007, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary. This love story of the world's most famous couple presents a thematic look at the most outstandingly successful marriage of recent times. This illustrated study explores the pressures and stresses of living life in the glare of public scrutiny. It is an early case of a married couple leading independent lives of extraordinary public service and indicating a path for others to follow. The historical experience of queens and their consorts and Elizabeth and Philip's Canadian and Commonwealth roles add scope to this biography.
Author : Stephanie Laurens
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062091875
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Royal Weddings written by Stephanie Laurens and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are cordially invited To help celebrate the Royal Wedding of Prince William to Catherine Middleton As we present a 77 page original anthology Written by three utterly wonderful authors! Stephanie Laurens' The Wedding Planner: Lady Margaret is proud plan the ton's most important nuptuals—including that of a prince. But it's Lady Margaret who falls in love . . . with dashing Gaston Devilliers! Gaelen Foley's Ever After: How scandalous! Eleanor Monford, Countess of Archer, is in love with her own husband. And as Princess Charlotte of England weds Prince Leopold, Eleanor's "secret" is about to come out. Loretta Chase's The Jilting of Lord Rothwick: On the eve of Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert, the Marquess of Rothwick learns his fiancée, Barbara Findley, has broken their engagement! So he desperately rides out of London to seek her out . . . and to win her back.
Author : AA.VV.
Publisher : Accademia University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Images of Royalty in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by AA.VV. and published by Accademia University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to contribute to the contemporary debate on the history of monarchy. The images of the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese crowns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are interpreted in accordance with classic historiographical interpretations and new methodological frontiers: roles, gender, interpretation; place, heritage and representation.
Author : Jennifer Robson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006267496X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)
Download or read book The Gown written by Jennifer Robson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most anticipated reads from InStyle, HelloGiggles, Hypable, Bookbub, and Bookriot! One of Real Simple's Best Historical Fiction novels of the year! “The Gown is marvelous and moving, a vivid portrait of female self-reliance in a world racked by the cost of war.”--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it. “Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.” —Sir Winston Churchill on the news of Princess Elizabeth’s forthcoming wedding London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation’s recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent hopes for a brighter future are tested when they are chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime honor: taking part in the creation of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown. Toronto, 2016: More than half a century later, Heather Mackenzie seeks to unravel the mystery of a set of embroidered flowers, a legacy from her late grandmother. How did her beloved Nan, a woman who never spoke of her old life in Britain, come to possess the priceless embroideries that so closely resemble the motifs on the stunning gown worn by Queen Elizabeth II at her wedding almost seventy years before? And what was her Nan’s connection to the celebrated textile artist and holocaust survivor Miriam Dassin? With The Gown, Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created. Balancing behind-the-scenes details with a sweeping portrait of a society left reeling by the calamitous costs of victory, she introduces readers to three unforgettable heroines, their points of view alternating and intersecting throughout its pages, whose lives are woven together by the pain of survival, the bonds of friendship, and the redemptive power of love.
Author : Russell E. Martin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501754866
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Tsar's Happy Occasion written by Russell E. Martin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended Christian and pre-Christian symbols to assure the birth of heirs. Gift exchanges created and affirmed social solidarity among the elite. The bride performed rituals that integrated herself and her family into the inner circle of the court. Using an array of archival sources, Russell E. Martin demonstrates how royal weddings reflected and shaped court politics during a time of dramatic cultural and dynastic change. As Martin shows, the rites of passage in these ceremonies were dazzling displays of monarchical power unlike any other ritual at the Muscovite court. And as dynasties came and went and the political culture evolved, so too did wedding rituals. Martin relates how Peter the Great first mocked, then remade wedding rituals to symbolize and empower his efforts to westernize Russia. After Peter, the two branches of the Romanov dynasty used weddings to solidify their claims to the throne. The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the rituals of power in early modern Russia.
Author : Claudia Acott Williams
Publisher : Merrell
ISBN 13 : 9781858946863
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (468 download)
Download or read book The Crown on Camera written by Claudia Acott Williams and published by Merrell. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crown on Camera traces the remarkable relationship between the British Royal Family and photography over the course of nearly 200 years. From Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's enthusiastic adoption of the emerging technology in the mid-19th century to the use of Instagram by the modern monarchy. Today, photographs of the British Royal Family remain some of the most widely distributed images across the world. Featuring iconic formal portraits alongside little-known pictures from private collections, this fascinating book explores how each new development of the medium has been embraced to record royal life. Since its invention almost two centuries ago, photography has created an unprecedented intimacy between monarch and subject. Where previously royal painted portraiture allowed a degree of control and an element of creative licence and negotiation between artist and sitter, the development of the photographic image provided the public with a more personal window on to the lives of the people behind the pageantry. Over the years, the medium has helped to shape the role and purpose of the Royal Family - to the point where, in a rapidly changing society, the close connection between Crown and camera has ensured the continued survival and popularity of the British monarchy. The book also considers the art of royal photography through the monarchy's patronage of such major 20th-century photographers as Cecil Beaton and family members Lord Snowdon and Patrick Lichfield, and such contemporary photographers as Chris Jackson. Members of the Royal Family have always been keen photographers themselves. Crown on Camera includes pictures from their private albums, and looks, too, at the publication of photographs by the royals, from Queen Alexandra to the Duchess of Cambridge, where the personal view has become the public image. Written by an expert curator from Historic Royal Palaces and published to coincide with a major new exhibition at Kensington Palace, the book combines an introductory essay with 200 extraordinary royal images and engaging extended captions that reveal the story behind each photograph.
