Royal Sisters

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1630762660
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Anne Edwards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The younger girl, not understanding this reference to their position in the succession, proudly countered, “No, you’re not. I’m three, you’re seven.” The royal sisters had no choice in their historic positions, but behind the palace gates and within the all-too-human confines of their personalities, they displayed tremendous individuality and suffered the usual symptoms of sibling rivalry. Royal Sisters provides an unprecedented and intimate portrait of these most famous siblings during their formative and dramatic youthful years. It is also one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating stories of sisterly loyalty. Edwards’s book is an honest look at how the royal sisters feel toward each other, their parents, their close relations and the men whom they have loved. It openly discusses, with new insights and information, the romance of Elizabeth and Philip and the tragic aborted love affair between Margaret and Group Captain Peter Townsend, and it has a cast of characters ranging from the youthful sisters’ suitors to Winston Churchill and the entire Royal Family. It is also the story of the making of a queen, of the high drama of her situation in the Townsend affair, of the real effect their uncle’s abdication had on the sisters’ lives, and of the internecine feuds that have brewed within the Royal Family since that time. Brought vividly to life through the many personal interviews of close royal associates, filled with new facts, previously unpublished anecdotes and photographs, Royal Sisters is a never-before-glimpsed look at the relationship of the Queen and Princess Margaret.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307720845
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Jean Plaidy and published by Crown. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sisters change the course of a nation by forsaking the King—their own father. England is on the verge of revolution. Antagonized by the Catholicism of King James II, the people plot to drive him from the throne. But at the heart of the plot is a deep betrayal: the defection of the daughters James loves, Mary and Anne. Both raised Protestant according to the wishes of England, the sisters support Protestant usurper William of Orange, Mary's husband, who lusts after the British crown. Passive Queen Mary is subservient to her husband's wishes, while Anne is desperate to please her childhood friend Sarah Churchill, a bold and domineering woman determined to subdue Anne, the queen-to-be, and rule England herself. Intrigue and political drama run high as the sisters struggle to be reconciled with each other--and with the haunting memory of the father they have exiled.

Author : Mrs. Robert Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Sisters; Or, Pictures of a Court written by Mrs. Robert Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Anne Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Jove Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780515107845
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Anne Edwards and published by Jove Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship of Great Britain's royal sisters

Author : mrs. Robert Cartwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The royal sisters; or, Pictures of a court written by mrs. Robert Cartwright and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538700476
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth & Margaret written by Andrew Morton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of The Crown, this captivating biography from a New York Times bestselling author follows Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret as they navigate life in the royal spotlight. They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward Vlll decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called 'Lillibet.' And bow to her wishes. Elizabeth would always look upon her younger sister's antics with a kind of stoical amusement, but Margaret's struggle to find a place and position inside the royal system—and her fraught relationship with its expectations—was often a source of tension. Famously, the Queen had to inform Margaret that the Church and government would not countenance her marrying a divorcee, Group Captain Peter Townsend, forcing Margaret to choose between keeping her title and royal allowances or her divorcee lover. From the idyll of their cloistered early life, through their hidden war-time lives, into the divergent paths they took following their father's death and Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, this book explores their relationship over the years. Andrew Morton's latest biography offers unique insight into these two drastically different sisters—one resigned to duty and responsibility, the other resistant to it—and the lasting impact they have had on the Crown, the royal family, and the ways it adapted to the changing mores of the 20th century.

Author : Thomas Peckett Prest
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Twins written by Thomas Peckett Prest and published by Gale and the British Library. This book was released on 1848 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Edwards
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006372769
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Sisters written by Anne Edwards and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Morris Marples
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Royal Sisters written by Morris Marples and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: