Queen Victoria
8 best books like Queen Victoria (Elizabeth Longford): Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire, Désirée, An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, Robert Kennedy and His Times, The Reluctant Empress, Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess, Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, The Suicide Shop
Victoria The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B00RKO3UMY
The extraordinary story of the world's most influential, intriguing and surprising ruler, Queen Victoria.
When Alexandrina Victoria was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 20 June 1837, she was 18 years...
| Author | Annemarie Selinko |
| ISBN | 8493388335 |
The stunning, massively bestselling story of Napoleon's first fiancé
First published in 1953, this riveting true-life tale comes to life in diary form, giving readers an inside glimpse at the young Napoleon and his family. Désirée is enchanted by the young officer, and he asks her to marry him....
| Author | Hannah Pakula |
| ISBN | 0684842165 |
A truly masterful book. Pakula pulls together everything from social theory to medical history to thousands of letters to create a portrait of the Empress Dowager Frederick. The first born and cleverest child of Queen Victoria, Vicky married the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick. Theirs was a truly...
Robert Kennedy and His Times
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618219285 |
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., chronicles the short life of the Kennedy family's second presidential hopeful in "a story that leaves the reader aching for what cannot be recaptured" (Miami Herald). Schlesinger's account vividly recalls the forces that shaped Robert Kennedy, from his position as the...
| Author | Brigitte Hamann |
| ISBN | 3548354793 |
She was the romantic idol of her age, the extraordinarily beautiful and mysterious Empress Elisabeth of Austria whose exploits made her a legend in nineteenth-century Europe and beyond. This biography by Brigitte Hamann reveals the truth of a complex and touching, curiously modern personality,...
Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
| Author | James Chambers |
| ISBN | 1905847238 |
The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: “I could no more write a romance than an epic poem.”
Charlotte was the...
Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
| Author | William Shawcross |
| ISBN | 0374185220 |
William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success.One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her...
| Author | Jean Teulé |
| ISBN | 1906040095 |
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers an amazing...
