Royalty

The Unforgettable Maharajas transports the reader back in time through 150 years of Indian royalty. Fairytale childhoods, magnificent palaces and forts, luxurious lifestyles, princely pastimes "et al unfold in all their splendour through this extensively researched and lavishly produced book.The Unf... More

‘The facts are as stated here . . . I have set down of good and bad whatever is known.’The Babur Nama, a journal kept by Zahir Uddin Muhammad Babur (1483–1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire, is the earliest example of autobiographical writing in world literature, and one of the finest. Aga... More

In the ten years since Princess Diana's shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world's imagination has only increased. For "The People's Princess," Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories. Sir Richard Branson reca... More

Reissue of the third gripping instalment of Princess Sultana’s ‘life behind the veil’ revelations by the author of the bestselling Princess and Daughters of Arabia. In Princess, readers were shocked by Sultana’s revelations about life in Saudi Arabia’s royal family. Royal women live as vi... More

THE COVETED JACOB DIAMOND--ALL OF 62 carats and used as a paperweight; the mindboggling beauty of the diamond necklace of Maharaja Pratapsingh Gaekwad of Baroda in which sparkled the famous `Star of the South' and `The Star of Dresden';--the largest in the world; the 27 Rolls Royces owned by the Mah... More

In his extraordinary new study of Diana’s last five years, Diana: In Pursuit of Love, Andrew Morton employs all his formidable skills as a researcher and investigative writer to set down what is all too often an edgy tale of bad faith, betrayal and cynical manipulation. Here too are elements t... More

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Dead for little more than one hundred years, Queen Victoria has already been the subject of more biographies than any other woman born since 1800. This newest biography from a well known historian is justified and distinguished by the incorporation of recent research on often-neglected aspects of he... More

Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, 119-121. He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his "Lives of the Caesars." Af... More

Philip Robins' survey of Jordan's political history begins in the early 1920s, continues through the years of the British Mandate, and traces events over the next half century to the present day. Throughout the period, the country's fortunes were closely identified with its head of state, King Husse... More

Henry I, son of William the Conqueror, ruled from 1100 to 1135, a time of fundamental change in the Anglo-Norman world. This long-awaited biography, written by one of the most distinguished medievalists of his generation, offers a major reassessment of Henry's character and reign. Challenging the da... More

In 1714 George Ludwig, the fifty-eight-year-old elector of Brunswick-Luneburg, became, as George I, the first of the Hanoverian dynasty to rule Britain. Until his death in 1727 George served as both elector of Hanover and British monarch. An enigmatic figure whose real character has long been concea... More

In this new account of Richard the Lionheart's reign, John Gillingham scrutinizes the king's fluctuating reputation over the centuries and provides a convincing revised interpretation. Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a neglectful king, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler... More

From her beginnings amid anonymity in early-eighteenth-century Paris, to her reign as the undisputed mistress of Versailles, Madame de Pompadour traces the life of a truly remarkable self-made woman whose astonishing rise confounded the most experienced and the savviest of her contemporaries. Algran... More

This new biography illuminates the life of Henry VII himself, how he ran his government, how his authority was maintained, and the nature of the country over which he ruled since he first claimed the throne in 1485.Sean Cunningham explores how Henry's reign was vitally important in stabilizing the E... More

This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, reassesses the role of this colorful ruler as constitutional monarch. E. A. Smith provides a full and objective account of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement, revealing that despite his faults George made im... More

By drawing upon sources as diverse as literature and archaeology, this book brings together a rich variety of scholarship to offer a new insight into the world of Edward the Elder, son and successor of King Alfred.By drawing upon sources as diverse as literature and archaeology, this book brings tog... More

This fresh interpretation of Mary Queen of Scotland brings us a new biography of one of the most intriguing figures of early modern European history. Setting Mary firmly in the context of the cultural and intellectual climate of the time, Warnicke brings to life what it must have really been like to... More