The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Windsor

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : 53,7 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 : Peter Fearon
Publisher : Birch Lane Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Donald Spoto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 Blackhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520228030

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The House of Windsor by Andrew Roberts Pdf

Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.

Author : E. J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852854618

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Albert and Victoria by E. J. Feuchtwanger Pdf

A joint biography of Britain's most remarkable and influential royal couple. >

Author : Nigel Blundell,Susan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Michael Paterson
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1459673093

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A Brief History of the House of Windsor (Large Print 16pt) by Michael Paterson Pdf

The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe - Coburg - Gotha to the homely and familiar Windsor. By redefining its loyalties to identify with its people and country rather than the princes, kings and emperors of Europe to whom it was related by birth and marriage, it set the monarchy on the path of adaptation, making itself relevant and allowing it to survive. Since then, the fine line trodden by the House of Windsor between ancient and modern, grandeur and thrift, splendour and informality, remoteness and accessibility, and influence and neutrality has left it more secure and its appeal more universal today than ever.

Author : Dean Palmer
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750964715

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The Queen and Mrs Thatcher by Dean Palmer Pdf

This is the remarkable story of how the two most powerful women in Britain at the time met and disliked each other on sight. For over a decade they quietly waged a war against each other on both a personal and political stage, disagreeing on key issues including sanctions against South Africa, the Miners' Strike and allowing US planes to bomb Libya using UK military bases. Elizabeth found the means to snub and undermine her prime minister through petty class put-downs and a series of press leaks. Margaret attacked her monarch by sidelining her internationally, upstaging her at home and allowing the Murdoch press to crucify the royal family. This book is a window into the 1980s, an era when Britain was changed beyond recognition by a woman who made 'Thatcherism' the defining word of the decade.

Author : Carolly Erickson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429904032

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Lilibet by Carolly Erickson Pdf

In Lilibet, master biographer Carolly Erickson turns her skill at writing un-put-downable narrative to telling the remarkable story of Elizabeth II, Queen of England. With her customary psychological insight, historian Erickson traces the queen's gilded but often thorny path from her overprotected girlhood to her ascension to the throne at twenty-five to her personal and national difficulties as queen. Lilibet shows us an Elizabeth we thought we knew-but shows her in a different light: as a small, shy woman with a sly and at times raucous sense of humor, a woman who appears stiff in public, but in private enjoys watching wrestling on TV. A woman most at home among her horses and dogs. And a woman long annealed to heartbreak and sorrow, who has presided over the decline of Great Britain and the decline in prestige of her own Windsor dynasty. Far from being a light, gossipy treatment of a celebrity, Lilibet tells the queen's story from her point of view, letting the reader relive Elizabeth's long and eventful life with all its splendid ceremonies, momentous responsibilities and family clashes. Through it all we glimpse, as never before, the strong and appealing sovereign who has ruled over her people for half a century and more, a ruler of immense wealth, international esteem and high character whose daily life is grounded in the bedrock of common sense.

Author : Geoffrey Hindley
Publisher : JG Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1572152664

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House of Windsor by Geoffrey Hindley Pdf

Examines the history and importance of the British royal family, the House of Windsor.

Author : C. Beem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137097224

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The Lioness Roared by C. Beem Pdf

Charles Beem uses Gender Studies and political and constitutional History to examine the problems faced by female rulers throughout British history, from the twelfth century Empress Matilda's imaginative efforts to become England's first regnant queen, to Queen Victoria's remarkable exercise of political power during the Bedchamber Crisis of 1839.

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1408886013

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“The” Royal House of Windsor by Elizabeth Longford Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0297768298

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The Royal House of Windsor by Elizabeth Longford Pdf

In July 1917 George V changed his name from the German-sounding Saxe-Coburg in response to the intense anti-German public opinion of the war years. Thus the Windsors, the family name of the present Royal house, came into being. Theirs has been a chequered story.