The Queen Of Diamonds

Author : Hugh Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905686384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen's Diamonds written by Hugh Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, this book tells the story of the royal inheritance of diamonds from the time of Queen Adelaide in the 1830s to Elizabeth II.

Author : Evalyn Walsh McLean
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of Diamonds written by Evalyn Walsh McLean and published by Turner. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last and longest private owner of the Hope Diamond, Evalyn Walsh McLean led anything but an ordinary life. Evalyn grew up a poor girl in a rough Colorado mining town where her father discovered one of the largest gold mines in the United States. The newly wealthy family relocated to Washington, D.C., where she met and married Ned McLean, who inherited the renowned Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer. With the combined influence of the Walsh and McLean families, Evalyn developed friendships with the politically prominent in the nation's capital and became the city's favorite hostess. Notorious for giving magnificent parties, she counted the Tafts, the Hardings, the Coolidges, Alice Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Ethel Barrymore among her many personal friends. The McLeans purchased the Hope Diamond when Evalyn was only twenty-four.Wagging tongues and the diamond's supposed curse did not, however, prevent her from wearing it. She lost the diamond a few times, too, once by putting it around her Great Dane's neck. When she left the Hope Diamond to her grandchildren in 1947, it was worth two million dollars. Evalyn loved her diamonds, but she loved children, pets, and life more. The deep indigo stone is but a single facet of her story. Her autobiography, Father Struck It Rich, became a best-seller in the mid-thirties. Now illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs, Queen of Diamonds is that autobiography with a foreword by her great-grandson and an epilogue describing the last decade of her life.

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374300070
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen of the Diamond written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487002076
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Queen of Singapore written by Ian Hamilton and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest thrilling novel in the Ava Lee series, Ava launches an investigation into a fraudulent investment scheme that sends her around the globe on the trail of illegal diamonds, drug smuggling, and offshore banking. Ava and Pang Fai are in Toronto to attend a party at the home of Ava’s mother, Jennie Lee. When Ava’s best friend, Mimi, fails to appear, Ava goes looking for her. She finds Mimi at home, distraught over the death of her father, who has taken his own life after losing the family’s savings in a fraudulent investment scheme. Moved to avenge this tragedy and recover the stolen money, Ava launches an investigation that takes her to cities on three continents. As she tracks the money, Ava is thrust into the underworld of illegal diamond trading, international drug smuggling, and the world’s most secretive offshore banking haven. Along the way, a number of Ava’s old friends offer their assistance—from her business partner, May Ling Wong, to her ge ge, the Mountain Master of Shanghai, Xu. Most poignant of all, Ava is visited in her dreams by Uncle, who offers her much-needed guidance as she confronts a new face of power and corruption.

Author : Paul Simms
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469145006
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When A King Of Hearts Meets A Queen Of Diamonds written by Paul Simms and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being that you're reading the back cover of this book means that the front cover probably intrigues you. Are you the QUEEN of Diamonds, or the KING of Hearts, and are you truly ready to "Play To Win". If your relationship/marriage life is excellent, then maybe you read this book and smile as you agree whole heartedly. If your relationship life sucks right now, then take this book to the counter for purchase, or just simply click "Buy Now"! I wrote this book just for you, whomever you may be, and I hope you truly enjoy it as much as I do. You may wonder, how could this book possibly relate or describe at least one method or scenario as to how my current, my future, or my developing relationship can improve or balance out?...Please read on! This book is for anyone who wants to get it right and cares about success in their relationship or marriage. Ladies, this is a good book for those men who dont normally read books, and I guarantee that if you recommend he read it, there will be great dialogue or an interesting point of view from him after turning in his homework assignment to you. Each chapter is specifically designed to help overcome, adapt, and improvise the best possible simple techniques used to make relationship success priority one! Please enjoy, and I wish the best to all.

Author : Jean Plaidy
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448150574
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of Diamonds written by Jean Plaidy and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of greed, duplicity, romance and intrigue, and a mystery said to have brought down the french monarchy. The world shook at the eruption of the French Revolution, a revolution, some say, precipitated by a single factor: the theft of the Diamond Necklace which, it seemed, had been commissioned for Marie Antoinette and helped to bring both her and King Louis XVI to the guillotine. But behind the scandal was a complex and daring conspiracy involving a Prince of the Royal House of France, the charming and deceitful countess Jeanne de Valois, and the infamous Comte de Cagliostro – all pawns in a secret, devious plot for wealth and supremacy in Europe. ‘Jean Plaidy, by the skilful blending of superb storytelling and meticulous attention to authenticity of detail and depth of characterisation has become one of the country’s most widely read novelists.’ Sunday Times ‘Full-blooded, dramatic, exciting.’ Observer ‘Plaidy excels at blending history with romance and drama.’ New York Times ‘Outstanding’ Vanity Fair

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230760945
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diamond Queen written by Andrew Marr and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-10-21 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter. 'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively about individual members of the Royal Family.' Daily Telegraph With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers have come to expect, in The Diamond Queen Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch, chronicling the Queen’s pivotal role at the centre of the state, which is largely hidden from the public gaze, and making a strong case for the institution itself. Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, Marr dissects the Queen’s political relationships, crucially those with her Prime Ministers; he examines her role as Head of the Commonwealth, and her deep commitment to that Commonwealth of nations; he looks at the drastic changes in the media since her accession in 1952 and how the monarchy has had to change and adapt as a result. Under her watchful eye, it has been thoroughly modernized but what does the future hold for the House of Windsor? This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new introduction and a new chapter that sets out to answer that crucial question. In it, Marr covers the Queen’s reign from the Diamond Jubilee to the run-up to the Platinum Jubilee in 2022, taking in the death of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles’s plans for the future of the monarchy and examines what Elizabeth II’s lasting legacy might be.

Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843472
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Realm of the Diamond Queen written by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly original and much-anticipated ethnography, Anna Tsing challenges not only anthropologists and feminists but all those who study culture to reconsider some of their dearest assumptions. By choosing to locate her study among Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia, Tsing deliberately sets into motion the familiar and stubborn urban fantasies of self and other. Unusual encounters with her remarkably creative and unconventional Meratus friends and teachers, however, provide the opportunity to rethink notions of tradition, community, culture, power, and gender--and the doing of anthropology. Tsing's masterful weaving of ethnography and theory, as well as her humor and lucidity, allow for an extraordinary reading experience for students, scholars, and anyone interested in the complexities of culture. Engaging Meratus in wider conversations involving Indonesian bureaucrats, family planners, experts in international development, Javanese soldiers, American and French feminists, Asian-Americans, right-to-life advocates, and Western intellectuals, Tsing looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze. Bearing the fruit from the lively contemporary conversations between anthropology and cultural studies, In the Realm of the Diamond Queen will prove to be a model for thinking and writing about gender, power, and the politics of identity.

Author : David Kray
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864865755
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hazel Crane, Queen of Diamonds written by David Kray and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazel Crane made untold millions by daring to challenge the system. She clawed her way up from the grim streets of Belfast to a glittering mansion in designer Johannesburg.

Author : Jeff Leen
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199933
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen of the Ring written by Jeff Leen and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mildred Burke, the longest reigning champion of female wrestling, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Kings of Cocaine. In this in-depth account, journalist Jeff Leen pulls back the curtain on a forgotten era when a petite midwesterner used her beauty and brawn to dominate America’s most masculine sport. At only five feet two, Mildred Burke was an unlikely candidate for the ring. A waitress barely scraping by on Depression-era tips, she saw her way out when she attended her first wrestling match. When women were still struggling for equality with men, Burke regularly fought—and beat—male wrestlers. Rippling with muscle and dripping with diamonds, she walked the fine line between pin-up beauty and hardened brawler. An unforgettable slice of Americana, The Queen of the Ring captures the golden age of wrestling, when one gritty, glamorous woman rose through the ranks to take her place in athletic history. “Jeff Leen has made a fabulous contribution to the sports-history canon. The Queen of the Ring is a marvelous evocation of an era, and a riveting portrait of a one-of-a-kind American moll.” —Sally Jenkins, author of The Real All Americans