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English
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Prince Albert was the love of Queen Victoria's life, her trusted husband and father of their nine children. While Victoria is seen as the embodiment of her time, its values, and its paradoxes, Wilson argues that it was Prince Albert who was at the vanguard of Victorian Britain's transformation as a vibrant and extraordinary center of political, technological, scientific, and intellectual advancement. Through Victoria, Albert and her German advisers...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, An Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Prince William and Princess Kate. William was born into England's royal family. Kate grew up in a nearby town. The two met at the University of St. Andrews and fell in love. Their marriage and two babies, George and Charlotte, were celebrated around the world. This young couple's romance continues to fascinate people everywhere.
Author
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition, revised and expanded edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides an inside look at Prince William and Kate Middleton, delving into both of their backgrounds, their relationship, and their engagement, in a book that also looks at William's relationship with his brother, Harry.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new and authoritative look at Prince Charles, the oldest heir to the throne in more than three hundred years. This vivid, eye-opening biography--the product of four years of research and hundreds of interviews with palace officials, former girlfriends, spiritual gurus, and more--is filled with fresh insights into Charles's life, in and out of the public eye. [This book]...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life--Prince Harry. Their whirlwind romance culminated with Meghan's ultimate fairy tale ending: their 2018 wedding at Windsor Castle. Finally, the world was her stage. It seemed that the dizzying success of the wedding...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From his earliest public appearances, Prince Harry has captured the hearts of royal enthusiasts around the world. Nicholl offers an in-depth look at the wayward prince turned national treasure, shedding light on Harry's relationship with his mother, his troubled youth and early adulthood, and how his military service in Afghanistan inspired him to create his legacy, the Invictus Games. Includes coverage of Harry's engagement to American actress Meghan...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xxiv , 262 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rumor has it that at the end of his year's training at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, William will be settling down in serious preparation for his future as the King of England. Having courted Kate Middleton throughout his time at St. Andrews University, the couple are now a permanent item. Having managed to maintain a rather low profile so far, Kate has been issued with her own security force, similar to that of Camilla, Prince Charles's consort....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall--the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana 'a bit crowded'--royal biographer Penny Junor tells the story of a woman reviled as a pariah who became the popular princess consort. Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy, she also played a central role in restoring the royal family's...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Queen Elizabeth II's husband, and father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the next three kings of England. From his early childhood in Paris among aristocrats and his mother's battle with schizophrenia to his distinctive military service during World War II and marriage to Elizabeth in 1947, Philip's life is chronicled and reveals his many faces--as a father, a philanthropist, a philanderer, and a statesman. -- Adapted from Amazon.com...
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English
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"Diana's Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Christopher Andersen picks up where he left off, covering everything that has happened to the brothers as they have grown up, gotten...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
British author Cadbury explores the many layers involved in the abdication crisis of 1936, which ceded the British crown to the seemingly least prepared of the four sons of George V, George VI, aka Bertie, who revealed himself in the subsequent crisis of war to be the most suitable and stalwart of all.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Grand Central Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers an insider's look at the life of the man who is fourth in line to Britain's throne.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When a young Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the dashing Naval Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, it wasn't without its problems. The romance between the sailor prince and the young princess brought a splash of colour to a nation still in the grip of post-war austerity. When they married in Westminster Abbey in November 1947, there were 3,000 guests, including six kings and seven queens. Within five years, as Queen Elizabeth...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from their royal lives, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have captured the world's attention. With unique access and written with the participation of those closest to the couple, Scobie and Durand offer an honest, up-close and disarming portrait Harry and Meghan. Dispelling the many rumors and misconceptions that plague the couple on both sides...
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Language
English
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Description
The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? Lacey reveals the untold details of William and Harry's closeness and estrangement, asking what happens when two sons are raised for vastly different futures-- one burdened with the responsibility of one day becoming king, the other with the knowledge...
Author
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations (some color), genealogical table, portraits ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 456 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jones's engaging biography of Edward of Woodstock (1330?76), eldest son of King Edward III and known to posterity as "the Black Prince," seeks to place his subject into the events and culture of the later Middle Ages and away from the mythologized versions of him. Although Edward never reigned?his father outlived him?his life and person, Jones argues, embodied the ideal of the medieval knight. Edward was acclaimed for his martial achievements (e.g.,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"She was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in November 1947 is remembered as the beginning of an extraordinary, lifelong union but success was not guaranteed. Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy plunges us back into the 1940s when a teenage princess fell in love with a foreign...
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