Young Victoria: The Colourful Personal Life of Queen Victoria, Symons Susan
Автор: Symons, Ruth Название: Sea lights ISBN: 1787414930 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787414938 Издательство: Bonnier Books Рейтинг: Цена: 1929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Turn the pages to light up the night in this gentle heartfelt novelty book.
Описание: Schloss II is the author's second book about the fascinating royal history of German castles. It visits 25 more beautiful castles and palaces in north and central Germany and tells more colourful stories of the royal families that built and lived in them. Royalty have always been the celebrities of their day, and these stories from history can rival anything in modern-day television soap operas. Schloss II has more than sixty illustrations and fifteen family trees. It is intended to be light-hearted and easy to read and should appeal to anyone who likes history or travelogues or is interested in people's personal stories. Schloss is the German word for castle or palace, and you are never far from one of these in Germany. For most of its history Germany was not a single country but a patchwork of independent states, each with its own royal family. These dukes and princes were passionate builders and left behind a rich legacy in the thousands of schl sser (the plural of schloss) that cover the German countryside. The schl sser in this book were built over many centuries and range in time from an eleventh century imperial palace, built to house the travelling court of an emperor who ruled from the back of a horse; to a schloss which only recently reopened after it was destroyed in World War II, and is now home to a shopping mall. The colourful stories in the book include the princess from a tiny German state who used her body and her brains to become the ruler of the vast Russian empire; the prince who tried to run away from his bullying father and was forced as his punishment to witness the execution of the friend who had helped him; and the German Queen of England whose private life was so scandalous that she was refused admittance to her own coronation. The author's first book, called Schloss, is also available on Amazon.
Описание: 2019 is the two hundred year anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria. 'Victoria and Albert' tells the story of one of the most famous relationships in history and is the second of three books about 'The Colourful Personal Life of Queen Victoria' . Her marriage to Prince Albert was by no means a grand match for Victoria and was very unpopular with the British public. There were early troubles for the couple with power struggles, personality clashes, and unwelcome pregnancies; but they created a true partnership, a happy family life, and founded a dynasty. The book ends with Albert's early death, and how a man in the prime of life was worn out with the stresses and strains of being Victoria's husband. Victoria was pregnant for a third of her married life, and the book looks at how she dealt with pregnancy, childbirth, and being a mother. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace in London, on 10 February 1840, when they were both twenty years old. For her, their marriage followed a whirlwind romance and Albert would be a life-long passion. For him, it was a successful outcome of long-laid plans - marrying Victoria was his career. They were in an unusual position for their time, because it was Victoria who was the sovereign and Albert had a supporting role. Their marriage would succeed, but stormy waters lay ahead.'Victoria and Albert' uses some of Victoria's own words from her journal and letters to help tell the story and is beautifully illustrated throughout with portraits and other memorabilia from the author's collection. This short book is intended to be light-hearted and easy-to-read and should appeal to anyone who likes history, or follows royalty, or is interested in people's personal stories.'The Colourful Personal Life of Queen Victoria' focusses on the story of Victoria as a woman - her personal life, the events that formed her character, and the relationships that were important to her. The first book, 'Young Victoria', looked at her early years, including her difficult childhood and how she came to the throne aged only eighteen. The third book, 'The Widowed Queen', covers the long years of her widowhood after Albert's early death, as the doyenne of sovereigns and grandmamma of Europe.
Автор: Firth Mary Название: The Angela Symons Story ISBN: 1796019011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781796019018 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Angela Symons Story is a sexual romp novel featuring an ambitious young woman who enlists the aid of a series of lovers to attain the most eligible bachelor in Europe. Angela Symons is portrayed in a frank sexual memoir of a woman bent on becoming the most pursued courtesan and mistress in France. She has no real morals and desires only to conquer, even to the point of asking the unseen help of the ancien of France, and to get what she wants: the prince of Denmark.
Автор: Symons, Arthur Название: Arthur symons, `spiritual adventures` ISBN: 178188613X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781886137 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Firth Mary Название: The Angela Symons Story ISBN: 1796019003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781796019001 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Angela Symons Story is a sexual romp novel featuring an ambitious young woman who enlists the aid of a series of lovers to attain the most eligible bachelor in Europe. Angela Symons is portrayed in a frank sexual memoir of a woman bent on becoming the most pursued courtesan and mistress in France. She has no real morals and desires only to conquer, even to the point of asking the unseen help of the ancien of France, and to get what she wants: the prince of Denmark.
Автор: Symons George James Название: Rainfall Tables of the British Isles for 1866-1880 (1883) ISBN: 1165673754 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781165673759 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Описание: Schloss III is the author's third book about the fascinating royal history of German castles. It visits 25 beautiful castles and palaces in central Germany and tells the colourful stories of the royal families associated with them. It also looks at how these wonderful buildings have survived the century since the monarchy fell and how they are being used today. The historical royal stories in the book include the prince who defied his family to marry a pharmacist's daughter and then bought the rank of royal princess for her; the prince cheated out of his inheritance by his elder brothers after their father's will disappeared; and the princess whose illegitimate birth may have been covered-up and who married the heir to the Russian throne. Schloss is the German word for castle or palace. The schl sser (plural of schloss) in the book range in time from the twelfth-century hilltop palace that was home to St Elisabeth and inspired an opera by Richard Wagner; to a nineteenth-century make-believe medieval castle on the Rhine, holiday home of a Prussian king. Many of them are not well-known to overseas visitors and some rarely see an english speaker. Schloss III has more than 80 illustrations and 15 family trees; it should appeal to anyone who likes history or sightseeing, or is interested in people's personal stories. After a thousand years of monarchy, the Kaiser abdicated in 1918, at the end of World War I, and Germany became a republic. Until then, the country was a patchwork of smaller royal states each with its own ruling family. These German dukes and princes were passionate builders; the beautiful castles and palaces they built, and their fascinating personal stories, are explored in this author's books. Her first two books, called Schloss and Schloss II, are also available on Amazon.
