The Fall Of The House Of Windsor

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0449909328

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The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor by A. N. Wilson Pdf

"For those who seek coherence beyond the weekly wrap-up offered by PEOPLE magazine comes a book that ponders the deeper effects of this slow decline of the world's last great monarchy....An interesting overview of what has happened to royalty." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Divorce and separation. Steamy telephone tapes. Brewing custody battles. Embarrassing photographs. Is the House of Windsor self-destructing? The brilliant writer A.N. Wilson, whose biographies include C.S. Lewis and Toltoy, sets out to answer this vexing and fascinating question in his spectacular new book. An observer and writer of great style and an Englishman of particular opinions, Wilson is uniquely placed to rail about the royal follies even as he defends the monarchy's usefulness. He asserts that the Windsors have actually gained in political power under Elizabeth II, and puts all the naughty goings-on in a historical context. A riches-to-ruin saga as bizarre as any novel, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR is by far the most intelligent--and most surprising--account of the catastrophe that the Royal Family have brought on themselves.

Author : Nigel Blundell,Susan Blackhall
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809237075

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The Fall of the House of Windsor by Nigel Blundell,Susan Blackhall Pdf

Reveals the turmoil within Great Britain's royal family and the scandals that threaten to destroy the monarchy

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018230487

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The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor by Donald Spoto Pdf

Biography of the Royal Family of Great Britain from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II that reveals new information about many family members and examines the difficulties that celebrity status has brought to the family.

Author : Nigel Blundell,Susan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1857820207

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The Fall of the House of Windsor by Nigel Blundell,Susan Pdf

Author : Nigel Blundell,Susan Blackhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 185782010X

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Fall of the House of Windsor by Nigel Blundell,Susan Blackhall Pdf

A history of the royal scandals, including the Dianagate tapes. The innermost secrets of the lives of Princess Diana, the Duchess of York and Prince Edward are among the stories told in this text.

Author : Peter Fearon
Publisher : Birch Lane Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1559722045

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Buckingham Babylon by Peter Fearon Pdf

The inside story of the British Royal House, from its foundation through the secrets of its greatest crises to the current tabloid scandals. Fearon reveals the most guarded secrets of a classically dysfunctional family--one doomed to repeat the patterns of the past. Photos.

Author : George W. Liebmann
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857727244

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The Fall of the House of Speyer by George W. Liebmann Pdf

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern Pacific Railroad, the London Underground and the infrastructure of the new Cuban republic. Later, it was the first major banking firm to finance Germany's Weimar Republic, as well as providing League of Nations loans to Hungary, Greece and Bulgaria. Yet, the firm was doomed by the nationalist passions aroused by World War I. Its English partner was denaturalised and exiled; its American partner enjoyed reduced standing because of his connection to Germany; and the Frankfurt branch closed with the coming of the Third Reich, its German partner fleeing into exile. The firm was dissolved in 1939, a surprisingly anticlimactic end to one of the great international banking companies of modern times. George W. Liebmann here tells the story of the firm and the family - shedding new light on the protagonists of a remarkable dynasty, who came undone in the dramatic years of the early 20th century.

Author : Clive Irving
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781643136158

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The Last Queen by Clive Irving Pdf

A timely and revelatory new biography of Queen Elizabeth (and her family) exploring how the Windsors have evolved and thrived, as the modern world has changed around them. Clive Irving’s stunning new narrative biography The Last Queen probes the question of the British monarchy’s longevity. In 2021, the Queen Elizabeth II finally appears to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But through Irving’s unique insight there emerges a more fragile institution, whose extraordinarily dutiful matriarch has managed to persevere with dignity, yet in doing so made a Faustian pact with the media. The Last Queen is not a conventional biography—and the book is therefore not limited by the traditions of that genre. Instead, it follows Elizabeth and her family’s struggle to survive in the face of unprecedented changes in our attitudes towards the royal family, with the critical eye of an investigative reporter who is present and involved on a highly personal level.

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015000577091

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The Royal House of Windsor by Elizabeth Longford Pdf

Checkered story of the four Windsor sovereigns of England in text and photographs; George V to Elizabeth II.

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1408886013

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“The” Royal House of Windsor by Elizabeth Longford Pdf

Author : Fred Paul Dello Iacono
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781456831530

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The Jonah Prophecies by Fred Paul Dello Iacono Pdf

Hear the last gospel of Jesus Christ as the actual voice of Jesus narrates the endtime biblical prophecies to "the faithful witness"=[168 Fred Dello Iacono] through the key of David=[56 knowledge] exactly what the end will be like so that all world can have its eyes opened. This book unseals the bible perfectly beyond mathematically infinity so its dire warnings cannot be refuted by any human. Whoever thought it would be Jesus who woulde be the person who unseals the bible.

Author : Harvey Eugene Lehman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418496920

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Lives of England's Monarchs by Harvey Eugene Lehman Pdf

This informative entertaining read tells, with wit and understanding, England

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938332

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The Queen and I by Sue Townsend Pdf

The Royals, they're just like us... The Queen and I is a hilarious satire on modern Britain and an exploration of what it really means to be human, by the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series THE MONARCHY HAS BEEN DISMANTLED When a Republican party wins the General Election, their first act in power is to strip the royal family of their assets and titles and send them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buckingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close (as the locals dub it), caviar for boiled eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed. But is their breeding sufficient to allow them to rise above their changed circumstance or deep down are they really just like everyone else? Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades. 'No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact' The Times 'Absorbing, entertaining ... the funniest thing in print since Adrian Mole' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph 'Kept me rolling about until the last page' Daily Mail Sue Townsend is Britain's favourite comic author. Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books, The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 553⁄4), Number Ten, Ghost Children, The Queen and I, Queen Camilla and The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year, all of which are highly acclaimed bestsellers. She has also written numerous well-received plays. She lives in Leicester, where she was born and grew up.

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385695152

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The Palace Papers by Tina Brown Pdf

The riveting inside story of the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, from the Queen’s tightening grip to the defection of Harry and Meghan—by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Diana Chronicles "Never again," became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana"—a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet. Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen's stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother, and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between two princes on "different paths," the ascendance of the resolute Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to "step back" as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy's best efforts, "never again" seems fast approaching. Full of powerful revelations, nuanced details, and searing insight, The Palace Papers will irrevocably change how the world perceives and understands the royal family.

Author : Philip Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199214235

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Monarchy and the End of Empire by Philip Murphy Pdf

Examines the relationship between the British government, the Palace, and the modern Commonwealth since 1945 and argues that the monarchy's relationship with the Commonwealth, which was initially promoted by the UK as a means of strengthening imperial ties, increasingly became an impediment to British foreign policy.