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Affectionately known as the Queen Mother, she was born a commoner and never expected to be Queen. Yet, her life was forever changed with the abdication of her brother-in-law, Edward VIII, and she rose to become one of the most popular royal figures. Helen Cathcart's fascinating account charts the life of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, from her birth to her life as Queen Mother. Drawing information from family letters, royal journals, and the personal recollections, The Queen Mother is an exceptionally detailed picture of one of the most influential women of the twentieth century.

At the end of the ninth century, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings. In the early 900s, Edward led a great fight against the Viking armies, assisted by the English rulers of Mercia: Lord Æthelred and his wife Æthelflæd, who was also Edward's sister. Known to history as the Lady of the Mercians, she earned a reputation as a capable general who was feared by her enemies. In this authoritative biography, Tim Clarkson tells her remarkable life story from childhood to her vital role in saving England from the Vikings.

The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right and the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady Macbeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare's famous play? Was St. Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Rosalind K. Marshall delves into these questions and more in this entertaining, impeccably researched book.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Frothy and forthright, a kind of Keeping Up with the Windsors...

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip enjoyed seventy-three years of happy married life together—the longest marriage of any royal British couple in history. But how did they meet? What did their families think of their burgeoning relationship? What obstacles did the young couple face before and after their marriage? And how did a childhood friendship grow into the love story of the century? In The Queen and Prince Philip royal biographer Helen Cathcart superbly reconstructs the early years of Elizabeth and Philip's relationship.

As the longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II has presided over an era of tremendous social, political and cultural change. In 2012, to mark her Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 looked back on the long span of her reign, and asked the public to choose high-profile public figures who have helped to define this New Elizabethan Age. Almost a thousand nominations poured in, and the final selection was decided by a panel of leading writers and historians, including Dominic Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne and Max Hastings.

Asoka, who reigned from 268 to 232 BC, was the most famous emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, which was the ruling clan of the Indian subcontinent from 321 BC to 185 BC. He was one of the most famous early converts to Buddhism and became one of its greatest evangelists. Today Asoka has a twofold interest for us: political and religious. The illustrious member of the great dynasty, of which he was the most celebrated representative, has left indelible traces of its achievements in Indian history. Moreover, he was the leader of a spiritual movement that spread rapidly throughout the East.

Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized—and largely mythical—notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters—Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary, and Elizabeth—ran the gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages.

"L’Emperador" recull una historia fascinant sobre l’emperador Haile Selassie d’Etiòpia, el suposat descendent directe de Salomó, que va governar el país com a monarca absolut durant mig segle, fins que el 1974 va ser derrocat per un consell revolucionari. Es presenta com un senyor feudal que és amo de tot, fins i tot de vides i sentiments, i tot un personatge misteriós per descobrir. És un rei bo i just amb el poble? O més aviat és un pallasso esperpèntic? O potser un dement que ignora el món que l’envolta i la situació que viu el país?

Buckingham Palace, 1981. Her engagement to Prince Charles is a dream come true for Lady Diana Spencer, but marrying the heir to the throne is not all that it seems. Alone and bored in the palace, she resents the stuffy courtiers who are intent on instructing her about her new role as princess of Wales. But when she discovers a diary written in the 1800s by Princess Charlotte of Wales, a young woman born into a gilded cage so like herself, Diana is drawn into the story of Charlotte’s reckless love affairs and fraught relationship with her father, the prince regent.

A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay, and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. During the Second World War, she "lodged" at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5.

La marquesa de Gange es una joven adornada con todas las virtudes (porque en Sade, tanto las virtudes como los vicios sólo se manifiestan en sus casos más estremos) y casada con un hombre igualmente encantador, a la que el destino no deja de perseguir con tristezas. Su cuñado, que es sacerdote, la desea y la persigue continuamente, reteniéndola incluso contra su voluntad.

Una investigació periodística rigorosa i trepidant que revela tot allò que encara no sabem sobre els escàndols que han dut a l'exili al rei Juan Carlos I. El rei, ara emèrit, Joan Carles I va ocupar la cúspide de la piràmide de l'Estat espanyol protegit per una armadura que, des de la mort de Francisco Franco, li va servir per consolidar i augmentar el seu poder i per ser agraït i generós amb els que el van ajudar.

Fоr mоrе thаn three dесаdеѕ in the lаtе 18th century, one woman ruled with an irоn fiѕt over аll оf Ruѕѕiа. That woman wаѕ Cаthеrinе the Great, and the роwеr ѕhе hеld аѕ a woman lеd thе рrеѕѕ, as wеll аѕ wоrld lеаdеrѕ, tо crucify hеr fоr it.

One of the most powerful men who ever lived was a Holy Roman Emperor and controlled vast swathes of the planet. Quite a bit has been written over the centuries about Charles V, but even so, historical texts do not always reveal the complex personality that this man possessed. He was a man of purpose who felt destined to hold both Europe and the Christian faith together. He knew this would be no easy task, but he nevertheless threw himself into it whole-heartedly. This is the life and the story of Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.

At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom. In 16th-century Europe, women's voices were suppressed and silenced. Even for a queen like Mary, her prime duty was to bear sons. In an age when textiles expressed power, Mary exploited them to emphasise her female agency.

"Kongehuset - På arbejde for Danmark" giver et enestående indblik i den kongelige families mange rejser og statsbesøg, hvor dronningen og kronprinsparret bidrager til at sætte danske værdier som demokrati, frihed og bæredygtighed på verdenskortet. Samtidig fletter forfatterne et halvt århundredes verdenshistorie sammen med dronningens 50 år på den danske trone. Dronningen har mødt statsledere som Indira Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Angela Merkel og Barack Obama, sovet i formand Maos seng i Beijing og fået skældud af Sovjetunionens præsident Podgornij.

Cleopatra was a descendant of Ptolemy I Soter, a general who served the legendary Macedonian king Alexander the Great. She reigned over Egypt for nearly 21 years, and she first stepped onto the throne when she was just 18 years old. Her life was full of challenges and treacherous events, but she proved to be one of the most important figures in ancient history. Most historians who wrote about her were heavily influenced by the Romans, who had managed to erase her side of the story. In this audiobook, you will discover the truth about the last pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

Königin Elizabeth Tudor ist auch heute noch als „Gloriana“ bekannt. Ein Name, der auf den Sieg ihrer kleinen Flotte wendiger Schiffe über die 131 Galleonen der spanischen Armada im Ärmelkanal am 6. August 1588 zurückgeht. In diesem wunderschönen biographischen Sachbuch lernen Sie Elizabeth so persönlich kennen wie nie zuvor. Ob Sie Fan der Tudor-Dynastie sind, oder dies Ihre erste Entdeckungsreise in die englische Geschichte ist, Sie werden einen wertvollen Einblick in den Geist der vielleicht legendärsten Frau der Weltgeschichte bekommen.

María Antonieta. Los frutos de la frivolidad se analiza la historia de aquella reina francesa de origen austriaco con “un gran destino malogrado”, cuyo mayor error, si acaso, fue no entender los signos de los tiempos y a un pueblo oprimido y empobrecido. Sin ser una tirana ni del todo culpable como la representa la historia, resultó ser víctima de su propia frivolidad y capricho.