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Queen Victoria - Story of Her Life and Reign - 1819-1901

London, W and R Chambers. 1901, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Black titles with black, green and yellow decoration and pictorial on orange cloth boards which have some minor marks but no wear. Internally there is a decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmaked. 144 pages. 22 illustrations and portraits. Not dated but presumably 1901. One of the more scarcer memorial editions of Queen Victoria's reign following her death. B2D. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Queen Victoria's Reign Memorial Edition

AYLING, STANLEY

George the Third

London, Collins. 1972, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002114127). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on brown cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with a hint of wear to spine tail and lower corner tips. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is price clipped. 510 pages, 29 illustrations and genealogical chart endpapers. Since the demolition work of Sir Lewis Namier and his followers biographers have fought shy of this tempting yet dangerously complex subject, and a new study of King George III was badly overdue. This most accomplished biography by Stanley Ayling of a richly human and critically important subject, written with wit, humour, a style of distinction, a sceptical yet never cynical intelligence and warm sympathy, based upon a lifetime's study. NOT EX LIB NOT BOOK CLUB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.0 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST 15. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: King George the Third, House of Hanover, Charlotte of Mecklenburg, Sarah Lennox 0002114127

BENNETT, DAPHNE

Queen Victoria's Children

New York, St. Martin's Press. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312660065). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US edition. 143 pages. 13 illustrations. Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg produced nine children before his untimely death in 1861. Daphne Bennett provides character studies of all the children during their formative years. New material from the Royal Archives enables her to paint a delightfully intimate picture of the nursery and its inmates in closer detail than has ever been possible before. NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY C3B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Queen Victoria, Prince Albert 0312660065

BISHOP, EDWARD

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Geneva, Heron Collectors Edition. 1969. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold decoration and motifs with cream and gold diamond pattern motif to front board on green leatherette boards. Green and gold decorated endpapers. Historical appendix. Yellow page marker bound in. 47 illustrations. Uniform with Women Who Made History Series. 14. Fine/No Jacket.

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BLAKISTON, GEORGIANA

Woburn and the Russells

London, Constable. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0094612102). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 246 pages, 39 illustrations. Genealogical tree endpapers. Jeremiah Wiffen, librarian to the sixth Duke of Bedford, traced the lineage of the family to Olaf the Sharp-Eyed, King of Rerik in the seventh century. Later, Wiffen was thought to have been too ingenious; the first ancestor of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford proven by documentary evidence was Stephen Russell, who lived at the end of the 14th century, and through marriage came into the property of Berwick by Swire in Dorset. This was the home from which John Russell, a century later, set out on his varied and triumphant career in the service of the crown, receiving an Earldom in 1550. Since that time the Rusell family have sustained a remarkable ascendancy, usually adding to their property with each generation, or producing men as brilliant and distinguished as Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister, in the 19th century and Bertrand Russell in the 20th century. The author, herself a Russell by birth, evokes the history of the great house and breathes life into its past inhabitants. 15. Fine/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Stephen Russell, Berwick by Swire, John Russell Earl of Bedford, Lord John Russell, Bertrand Russell, Woburn 0094612102

BULLOCK, REV. CHARLES

The Queen's Resolve and Her Doubly Royal Reign - a Jubilee Memorial

London, "Home Words" Publishing Office. 1887. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt and black titles and decoration with gilt and black cameo on red cloth boards. Some minor light marks to boards but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Hundred and Fiftieth Thousand for the jubilee year. The second printing. 27 illustrations. A very nice condition example of this work. B2D. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Queen Victoria's Jubilee, Celebration of Queen Victoria's Reign

DENNISON, MATTHEW

The Last Princess - the Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2007. (ISBN: 9780297847946). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in and As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 302 pages. 32 illustrations. Family charts of the Children of Queen Victoria, House of Erbach--Schonberg, House of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Grand Ducal House of Hesse-Darmstadt. The youngest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert was a daughter, Beatrice, 'the last princess'. She hardly knew her father, who died when she was only four. But his shadow, and that of her mother's titanic grief, coloured the remainder of Beatrice's long life. When the Prince died, Queen Victoria turned to Beatrice for comfort and distraction. In time she came to rely on Beatrice absolutely, while also demanding her complete submission. Queen Victoria regarded Beatrice as both her companion and secretary, entrusting her to edit and bowdlerise the many volumes of her journal after her death - charge that occupied Beatrice for over 30 years. Despite her mother's determination to prevent her from so much as thinking of love, her guard eventually and at twent-eight Beatrice was allowed to marry handsome Henry of Battenberg. Like her mother Beatrice was a carrier of haemophilia. One of her three sons was a haemophiliac, and her daughter, Victoria Eugenie, in marrying Alfonso XIII of Spain transmitted the gene to the Spanish royal family with catastrophic results. L. As New/As New.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Princess Beatrice, Haemophilia, Henry of Battenberg, Princess Victoria Eugenie, Alfonso XIII of Spain 9780297847946

DUNN, JANE

Elizabeth and Mary - Cousins, Rivals, Queens

London, Harper Collins. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002571501). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped (Fine apart from a mark of fading to front left by a label being removed). xxxv + 535 pages. 40 colour illustrations. Coloured pictorial endpapers. This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. It was the defining relationship of their lives and marked the intersection of the great Tudor and Stuart dynasties. At its core were their rival claims to the throne of England. Working almost exclusively from contemporary letters and writings, the biographer lets the two Queens speak to us across more than 400 years, their voices and responses surprisingly familiar to our own, their characters vivid, by turns touching and terrible. Mary was executed for plotting Elizabeth's murder, and after Elizabeth's death in 1603, marking the end of the Tudor dynasty, it was a posthumous triumph for Mary, whose son, James I united the English and Scottish thrones under a Stuart king. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.175 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST L. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Tudors, Stuarts 0002571501

FRIEDMAN, DENNIS

Darling Georgie - the Enigma of King George V

London, Peter Owen. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0720610710). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 235 pages. 15 illustrations. Genealogical charts to endpapers. The psychiatrist author takes as his starting point the widely held belief that the personality and behaviour of parents and grandparents have a powerful influence on their children, grandchildren even great-grandchildren. An insightful biography arguing that the psychologically damaging upbringing affected his later life and that the effects are still evident in today's Royal Family. 15 illustrations and genealogical trees of the House of Windsor and Queen Alexandra. 311. Fine/Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: King George V 0720610710

GARNER, VALERIE

Katharine - a Biography of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297811754). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy with a small removal to top corner of front endpaper (presumably to remove a name) with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. 8 pages of illustrations. When Katharine Worsley, a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, married Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, the Queen's first cousin, in York Minster on 8 June 1961, both families thought it a romantic if ironic twist to the tales of Roundheads and cavaliers. Valerie Garner recalls Katharine's happy Yorkshire childhood, her long wait to marry the Duke before joining him in Hong Kong as an army wife, her love of music, how her religious beliefs have helped her in difficult times, and her many charitable activities. NOT EX LIB B2A. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Katharine Worsley, Edward Duke of Kent 0297811754

HALDANE, CHARLOTTE

Madame de Maintenon - Uncrowned Queen of France

London, Constable. 1970, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 310 pages. Portrait of Francoise de Maintenon and her niece Francoise d'Aubigne to frontispiece and 14 other portraits and illustrations together with 2 geneaological charts. The first biography in English for forty years. Madame de Maintenon became governess to the six bastard children of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, who were being reared in the greatest secrecy. At first Louis disliked the prim, intellectual governess, but when Madame de Montespan's obstreperous temper wearied him, and after her downfall following the notorious Poisons Affair, he became more and more attracted to her. Louis wished to make her his mistress, but Francoise politely declined. Then, when his queen, Marie-Therese, died, he made the sensational decision to marry Francoise morganatically. She was then 48, he 45. And except for one serious quarrel over Quietism, their marriage lasted with complete success for more than 30 years. 13. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Francoise D'Aubigne, Louis XIV, Madame de Montespan

HIBBERT, CHRISTOPHER

George III - a Personal History

London, Viking. 1998, First. (ISBN: 0670869414). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from age toning to closed edges) with near Fine dustjacket. xiii + 464 pages. 67 illustrations. Geneaological chart. To most English people George III was the king that went mad, to most Americans he is the king stigmatized in the Declaration of Independence as 'unfit to be the ruler of a free people'. In more recent years he has been depicted as 'Farmer George' or 'Mr. King', an absurd figure pottering about Windsor. In this absorbing book Christopher Hibbert reassesses a remarkable man who was widely loved by his subjects, a man of courage and sensibility and a generous patron of scientists, musicians, authors and artists. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.94 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 15. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Georgian England 0670869414

HINDE, THOMAS

Courtiers - 900 Years of Court Life

London, Victor Gollancz. 1986, First Edition. (ISBN: 0575037679). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 219 pages. 15 illustrations. Here is a galaxy of odd and wonderful characters: sycophants and time-servers, royal lovers and intriguers, Chief Sewers and Grooms of the Stole. In the tradition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives Thomas Hinde invites us to share the public and private lives of some hundred characters at court - from Eudo, Chief Steward to William the Conqueror, to Frederick Ponsonby, George V's Keeper of the Privy Purse. Geoffrey Chaucer, Nell Gwyn, Barbara Villiers, Jane Shore, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Robert Carr, Sir Thomas Overbury, Fanny Burney, Abigail Hill, Talbot Edwards and the Earl of Rochester: these celebrated courtiers jostle with others less famous to form a procession of royal favourites; harlots and poets, adventurers and dwarfs, dukes and orange sellers. Most extracted titles and wealth or political power from their patron, others slipped from favour to rot in prison, or languish in genteel obscurity, whilst many Tudor courtiers had their careers terminated by the axe. NOT EX LIB 12. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: English Royal Courtiers, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nell Gwyn, Barbara Villiers, Jane Shore, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Robert Carr, Sir Thomas Overbury, Fanny Burney, Abigail Hill, Talbot Edwards, Earl of Rochester 0575037679

HOUGH, RICHARD (SELECTED AND WITH A COMMENTARY BY)

Advice to a Grand-Daughter - Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse

London, Heinemann. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0434348619). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth boards which have a touch of wear to top and lower edges with some minor marks to front. Internally there is a small inscription to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has fading to spine and is not price clipped. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. NOT EX LIBRARY NOT READERS UNION BOOK CLUB 14. Very Good/Very Good.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Princess Alice, Grand Duke Louis, Tsar Alexander II, Haemophilia 0434348619

HOUGH, RICHARD

Mountbatten - Hero of Our Time

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297778056). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which ha a protective cover. The first full length biography of Lord Mountbatten by an author who travelled with him far and wide and interviewed many members of the Royal Family. The last godson of Queen Victoria, he lost his title at age 17 and later married Edwina Ashley a millionairess. Numerous photographs and genealogical charts to endpapers. 23. Fine/Near Fine.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Biography, English Royalty 0297778056