Palace Of History

Author : Kenneth Scott
Publisher : Scala Books
ISBN 13 : 9781857596595
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book St James's Palace written by Kenneth Scott and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St James's Palace was built by Henry VIII in the 1530s on the site of a former leper hospital, and as such is one of London's oldest royal palaces and host to some of the most extraordinary events in British history. It was at St James's Palace that Mary Tudor signed the treaty surrendering Calais; where Elizabeth I held her Councils of War at the time of the Spanish Armada and where Charles I spent his final night before his execution. Today, the Palace remains the official seat of the monarchy - 'the Court of St James' - playing host to many state and ceremonial occasions. This delightful book is filled with quality reproductions to illustrate the witty and informative text, bringing to life the history of the royal palace. Sir Kenneth Scott, an author very familiar with the workings of a royal household, gives an illuminating and fascinating account of the history of St James's Palace, which is the only one of the Royal Palaces not open to the public. AUTHOR: After school and university in Edinburgh, Sir Kenneth Scott joined the Diplomatic Service and served in a variety of posts including Moscow, Bonn, Washington and Brussels before being appointed Ambassador in Yugoslavia in 1982. From 1985 to 1996 he was one of the Private Secretaires to The Queen, and during most of that time he lived in an apartment in St. James' Palace. In 1996, after retirement from the Royal Household, he spent nine months in Sarajevo as Chairman of the Provisional Election Commission which organised the first democratic elections in Bosnia after the war. He now lives in Edinburgh. 150 colour illustrations

Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hampton Court Palace written by Lucy Worsley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worsley and Souden's book tells the story of one of the finest palaces in Europe, covering the original buildings of Henry VIII's reign and the baroque additions by Sir Christopher Wren, as well as the famous Gardens. It also reveals details of palace life for both the monarchy and those 'below stairs'.

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300076398
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whitehall Palace written by Simon Thurley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiles information about a myriad of topics, ranging from the arts and life sciences to computers and the zodiac. 8 yrs+

Author : Anne Walthall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520941519
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Servants of the Dynasty written by Anne Walthall and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.

Author : Antony Spawforth
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312357850
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Versailles written by Antony Spawforth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-reaching history of the old-regime palace evaluates eighteenth-century political and social aspects that have influenced modern France, in an account that covers such topics as the "perpetual house party," the consequences of the monarchy's relocation to Versailles, and the role of the palace in French national identity. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Norman Eisen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0451495799
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Palace written by Norman Eisen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past. From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism—and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. Weaving in the life of Eisen’s own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, The Last Palace tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy.

Author : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power written by Gülru Necipoğlu and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1991 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.

Author : Lucy Worsley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1639734708
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Courtiers written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace's glory days came between 1714 and 1760, during the reigns of George I and II . In the eighteenth century, this palace was a world of skulduggery, intrigue, politicking, etiquette, wigs, and beauty spots, where fans whistled open like switchblades and unusual people were kept as curiosities. Lucy Worsley's The Courtiers charts the trajectory of the fantastically quarrelsome Hanovers and the last great gasp of British court life. Structured around the paintings of courtiers and servants that line the walls of the King's Staircase of Kensington Palace-paintings you can see at the palace today-The Courtiers goes behind closed doors to meet a pushy young painter, a maid of honor with a secret marriage, a vice chamberlain with many vices, a bedchamber woman with a violent husband, two aging royal mistresses, and many more. The result is an indelible portrait of court life leading up to the famous reign of George III , and a feast for both Anglophiles and lovers of history and royalty.

Author : John Martin Robinson
Publisher : Royal Collection Trust
ISBN 13 : 9781902163185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buckingham Palace written by John Martin Robinson and published by Royal Collection Trust. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated history of Buckingham Palace.

Author : Brian Hoey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buckingham Palace written by Brian Hoey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: