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Katherine Ellison

Book DescriptionA major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time. Book description: ?Katherine Ellison has a reporter?s zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises.? David Haward Bain, author of Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines. ?The research here is superb, the writing is gripping and graceful,? The Washington Post. ? Proves once again that absolute power corrupts absolutely An absorbing biography, likely to be in demand,? Library Journal.

Nigel Barley

New Ed edition

Sherry Beck Paprocki

The fairytale wedding of Lady Diana Spencer to Prince Charles in 1981 was considered the social event of the century. Called the "People's Princess", Diana embodied style, grace, and beauty. Bearing the royal family two heirs to the throne, William and Harry, the princess lived in a world besieged by flashbulbs and rumormongering press. But the fairytale marriage was short lived. She struggled privately with her weight and publicly with the separation and eventual divorce from Charles. In her post-royal life, Diana forged a new purpose as a humanitarian who drew attention to those suffering from diseases and catastrophes. Killed in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Diana left a legacy of goodwill through her charity work and her sons. In "Diana, Princess of Wales: Humanitarian", read about a woman who overcame personal turmoil to make considerable and lasting contributions to the world at large.

Lewis Melville

Book Description"The Duchess of York wished to have the portraits of the most beautiful women at Court," Anthony Hamilton wrote in the Memoirs of Count Grammont. "Lely painted them, and employed all his art in the execution. He could not have had more alluring sitters. Every portrait is a masterpiece." The original set of "Beauties" painted by Lely were, as we find from James II's catalogue, eleven in number, their names being Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland (nee Villiers); Frances, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox (nee Stuart); Mrs. Jane Myddleton (nee Needham); Elizabeth, Countess of Northumberland (nee Wriothesley); Elizabeth, Countess of Falmouth (nee Bagot); Elizabeth, Lady Denham (nee Brooke); Frances, Lady Whitmore(nee Brooke); Henrietta, Countess of Rochester (nee Boyle); Elizabeth, Countess de Grammont (nee Hamilton); and Madame d'Orleans. It will be seen that in this list of "Beauties" Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, does...

Paul Doherty

Book DescriptionEgypt?s most famous king died at the age of eighteen, and in the three thousand years since his death, the fabulous treasure buried with the young ruler has become as famous as his name. It has long been assumed that Tutankhamun diedof natural causes, yet his hurried burial, first in a virtually unmarked grave, suggests there may have been an attempt, or plot, to conceal the evidence of fatal head wounds. Behind King Tut?s calm death mask, Doherty uncovers a turbulent tale of bloody intrigues at the Egyptian court, most of them pointing to the possibility of murder. The powerful cabal that ran the court and governed the country might have had young Tutankhamun assassinated; or he might have been killed at the instruction of theimperious first minister, Ay, who sought to seize the pharaonic crown for himself. And what role did the beautiful Ankhesenamun, Ay?s granddaughter and Tutankhamun?s queen, play in the labyrinthine courtly scheming? Coupling...

Martin Hume

Book DescriptionMany suitors, driven by love, social-climbing or politics came close. See how and why she remained the Virgin Queen. "That a strong modern England was rendered possible mainly by the boldness, astuteness, and activity of Elizabeth at the critical turning-point of European history is generally admitted; but how masterly her policy was, and how entirely personal to herself, is even yet perhaps not fully understood."

E. Jaiwant Paul

Richard Oram