Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback)

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking - The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback)

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's grandchildren numbered over thirty, and to maintain and increase British royal power, she was

Princes at War - The British Royal Family's Private Battle in the Second World War (Cadbury Deborah)(Paperback / softback)

Queen Victoria's Gene - Haemophilia and the Royal Family (Potts D M)(Paperback / softback)

The only book to investigate the sudden appearance of the haemophilia gene in the Royal

Goodbye to Victoria the Last Queen Empress - The Story of Queen Victoria's Funeral Train (Keat Peter J.)(Paperback / softback)

Mystery of Princess Louise - Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter (Hawksley Lucinda)(Paperback / softback)

The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumour and gossip than hard

Victoria's Wars - The Rise of Empire (David Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her

Queen Victoria: This Thorny Crown (Ledger-Lomas Michael)(Pevná vazba)

This biography evokes the pervasive importance of religion to Queen Victoria's life but also that life's centrality to the religion of Victorians around the globe. The first comprehensive exploration of Victoria's religiosity, it shows how moments in her life--from her accession to her marriage and

Last Princess - The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter (Dennison Matthew)(Paperback / softback)

The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain (Massie Allan)(Paperback)

'Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history.' --The Wall Street JournalIn this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's

Queen Victoria's Children (Kiste John Van Der)(Paperback)

Queen Victoria and Albert, the Prince Consort, had nine children who, despite their very different characters, remained a close-knit family. This is not only the story of their lives in terms of world impact, but also of personal achievements in their own right, and their contributions to public

Electric Guitars Design and Invention: The Groundbreaking Innovations That Shaped the Modern Instrument (Bacon Tony)(Paperback)

ELECTRIC GUITARS DESIGN AND INVENTION: THE GROUNDBREAKING INNOVATIONS THAT SHAPED THE

Federalist Papers - The Writings that Shaped the U. S. Constitution (Hamilton Alexander)(Paperback / softback)

Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (Worsley Lucy)(Paperback / softback)

Historian, author and TV presenter Lucy Worsley delves into the detail of Queen Victoria's life in this major new

Victoria and Abdul: The Screenplay (Hall Lee)(Paperback)

Victoria & Abdul tells the extraordinary true story of Queen Victoria's relationship with Abdul Karim, her Muslim manservant, who traveled from India to present a ceremonial medal as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee but within months became her personal teacher of Urdu and dedicated spiritual

Most Beautiful Princess (Croft Christina)(Paperback)

At the age of nineteen, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, stepped into the glittering court of the Romanovs, beginning a journey that would lead her from the shimmering ballrooms of St. Petersburg to the back streets of Moscow. Through intrigues, assassination, war and

Princess Smartypants Breaks the Rules! (Cole Babette)(Paperback / softback)

When the Queen packs off Princess Smartypants to finishing school, it seems that our favourite royal might become a perfect princess after all ...huh, no chance! Instead, Princess Smartypants makes her own school rules and teaches those other do-goody princesses just exactly how to have

9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage (Smalley Greg)(Paperback)

Expose the Lies. Understand the Truths. And Make Your Marriage Better than Ever!Lies about marriage are rampant in our culture--and in our churches. But the corresponding truths can strengthen your marriage and even save it from collapse. 9 Lies That Will Destroy Your Marriage identifies the lies,

A Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages That Changed History (Major Joanne)(Pevná vazba)

Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British Royal Family. The first part of this intriguing book looks at the scandal that erupted in

Summer Queen (Pemberton Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Sweeping across Europe from Britain to Russia at the turn of the 20th century, The Summer Queen explores the lives of a royal family united by love, yet divided by

Queen (Queen)(Paperback)

(Guitar Chord Songbook). 40 hits from Queen get the royal treatment in this songbook, with complete lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams. Includes: Another One Bites the Dust * Bohemian Rhapsody * Crazy Little Thing Called Love * Fat Bottomed Girls * Hammer to Fall * Innuendo * Killer

Khartoum - The Ultimate Imperial Adventure (Asher Michael)(Paperback / softback)

The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. This work presents an account that sheds light on this tale of honour, courage,

Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I (Mumford Lewis)(Paperback)

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of

Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Taylor Miles)(Paperback)

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 'A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in colonial Indian affairs.'--Journal of Modern