A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.

"Vanity Fair Royals correspondent Katie Nicholl explores the remarkable life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II and the legacy she is handing down to the next generation"--Dustjacket flap. Queen Elizabeth has been constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and Commonwealth. Recent years have brought grief and turmoil to the House of Windsor. Nicholl looks at Elizabeth's remarkable and unrivalled...

In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Follow her from childhood and discover the unforeseen circumstances that instantly altered the British monarchy's line of succession, catapulting Princess Elizabeth from the unlikely heir to the throne to England's future queen. Highlights and milestones are reverently presented with footage throughout...

The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her. "Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specifƯically, there could never be "another Diana"--a memƯber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the BritƯish...

"From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership"-- King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936. As a young man George seemed uninspired, but his reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional...

"A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne" --

The complex and contradictory lives of the Windsors following Edward's abdication of the British throne in 1936. Shut out by the royal family, the couple was forced into exile--but a glamorous one in which they flitted from sumptuously appointed mansions in the south of France to luxurious residences in Palm Beach. They were spoiled, selfish people, obsessed with their image, reveling in adulterous affairs, and financially exploiting their position...

In an epic narrative sweeping from 1437 to the first decade of the seventeenth century, the author traces the rise and rule of the Tudor dynasty to rediscover the true significances of previously overlooked figures.