Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Princess Diana was known as the "People's Princess" because she loved to be kind and generous to others. Before she made a big impact on the world, Diana was a thoughtful little girl who loved animals and ballet. Her life changed when she became royalty, but she never gave up her passion for helping people. Explore how Diana went from being a little girl growing up in England to one of the most famous women in the world, known especially for her...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject. From birth to maturity, they were the stuff of which dreams are made. "I'm three and you're four," the future Queen, then a child, imperiously informed her sister....
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"I am like poor Lear,' said George III at the height of his madness during the Regency crisis of 1788-9, 'but thank God I have no Regan, no Goneril, only three Cordelias.' He was referring to his elder daughters, Charlotte, Augusta and Elizabeth, whom he regarded - with their younger sisters, Mary, Sophia and Amelia - as symbols of perfect English womanhood. He had a lower opinion of his seven sons, headed by the dazzling Prince Regent. On the surface...
Author
Publisher
Thunder Bay Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's sister and returned as Lord Snowdon. The Queen's cousin,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized-and largely mythical-notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I, often known as Longshanks. The lives of these sisters-Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth-ran the full gamut of experiences...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual lessons about real life and royal tradition. "William and...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Veteran fashion journalist Elizabeth Holmes expands her popular Instagram Stories series, "So Many Thoughts," into a nuanced look at the style, branding, and positioning of the four most influential contemporary British Royals: Queen Elizabeth II; Diana, Princess of Wales; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. Today, the fashion choices of Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle are frequently headline news. More than just wearing...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Documents how a betrayed Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I, raised her four daughters in exile during the Dutch Golden Age, tracing how their stories shaped a three-decade war and fulfilled the promises of their great-grandmother, Mary Queen of Scots.
"From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter...
Author
Publisher
Indicios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Este revelador y explosivo libro se ha convertido en un s�uper ventas instant�aneo a nivel internacional ya que revela la historia interna sobre el camino que atraves�o Meghan Markle para pasar de ser una actriz menor y una activista fracasada a ser una mujer lo suficientemente poderosa como para abrir una brecha dentro de la familia real brit�anica. Despu�es de una infancia vivida en los escenarios de pel�iculas de Hollywood, Meghan...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Ibérica, S. A
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Por fin todos los detalles de la increíble historia de Harry y Meghan contados por dos periodistas especializados en los entresijos de la familia real británica que han seguido los pasos de la pareja desde el inicio de su relación, pasando por su revolucionaria boda, hasta el anuncio inesperado de su desvinculación de la Casa Real para recuperar el control sobre sus vidas. Basado en entrevistas exclusivas y escrito con la participación de personas...
31) Princess Diana
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"[Profiles] the life of Princess Diana, the world's most loved princess"--Provided by publisher.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request