The Rise And Fall Of The House Of Windsor

Author : A. N. Wilson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780449909324
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor written by A. N. Wilson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For those who seek coherence beyond the weekly wrap-up offered by PEOPLE magazine comes a book that ponders the deeper effects of this slow decline of the world's last great monarchy....An interesting overview of what has happened to royalty." CHICAGO TRIBUNE Divorce and separation. Steamy telephone tapes. Brewing custody battles. Embarrassing photographs. Is the House of Windsor self-destructing? The brilliant writer A.N. Wilson, whose biographies include C.S. Lewis and Toltoy, sets out to answer this vexing and fascinating question in his spectacular new book. An observer and writer of great style and an Englishman of particular opinions, Wilson is uniquely placed to rail about the royal follies even as he defends the monarchy's usefulness. He asserts that the Windsors have actually gained in political power under Elizabeth II, and puts all the naughty goings-on in a historical context. A riches-to-ruin saga as bizarre as any novel, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF WINDSOR is by far the most intelligent--and most surprising--account of the catastrophe that the Royal Family have brought on themselves.

Author : Peter Fearon
Publisher : Birch Lane Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559722049
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buckingham Babylon written by Peter Fearon and published by Birch Lane Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story of the British Royal House, from its foundation through the secrets of its greatest crises to the current tabloid scandals. Fearon reveals the most guarded secrets of a classically dysfunctional family--one doomed to repeat the patterns of the past. Photos.

Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
ISBN 13 : 9780809237074
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the House of Windsor written by Nigel Blundell and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1993-04 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the turmoil within Great Britain's royal family and the scandals that threaten to destroy the monarchy

Author : Donald Spoto
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor written by Donald Spoto and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Royal Family of Great Britain from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II that reveals new information about many family members and examines the difficulties that celebrity status has brought to the family.

Author : Andrew Roberts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520228030
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Windsor written by Andrew Roberts and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these lavishly illustrated books serves up a brief and manageable portion of the Fraser-edited and much-touted Lives of the Kings and Queens of England. A set of six jewels for Fraser's crown.

Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857820201
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of the House of Windsor written by Nigel Blundell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Paterson
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 178033804X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of the House of Windsor written by Michael Paterson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the homely and familiar Windsor. By redefining its loyalties to identify with its people and country rather than the princes, kings and emperors of Europe to whom it was related by birth and marriage, it set the monarchy on the path of adaptation, making itself relevant and allowing it to survive. Since then, the fine line trodden by the House of Windsor between ancient and modern, grandeur and thrift, splendour and informality, remoteness and accessibility, and influence and neutrality has left it more secure and its appeal more universal today than ever.

Author : Nigel Blundell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781857820102
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fall of the House of Windsor written by Nigel Blundell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the royal scandals, including the Dianagate tapes. The innermost secrets of the lives of Princess Diana, the Duchess of York and Prince Edward are among the stories told in this text.

Author : E. J. Feuchtwanger
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852854614
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert and Victoria written by E. J. Feuchtwanger and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A joint biography of Britain's most remarkable and influential royal couple. >

Author : Penny Junor
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007102151
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Firm written by Penny Junor and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It would be hard to invent a group of personalities more extraordinary than the British Royal Family -- known as 'The Firm' by Prince Philip. This book will look in depth at how the family really operates and will reveal how they behave behind closed doors. With showbiz stars and sporting celebrities now attracting the adulation once afforded to royalty, The Firm questions what monarchy is for. Is it a hangover from the past, an expensive anachronism, a relic of a bygone age of deference and hierarchy, or is it an important and relevant part of Britain in the 21st century - something that gives stability and continuity to the country, and richness and glamour to our national life in ways that a republic never could ? If so, do the media mock, hound and criticize the Royal Family at their peril? Could Prince William decide that the long lenses and the scrutiny of his private life is too high a price to pay? They live in the lap of luxury with valets and butlers, cooks and courtiers, but for all the palaces and privilege it is not an enviable life. cradle to coffin, they have no privacy, no freedom, no voice and so long as Britain continues to want a monarchy, no choice. The Firm investigates the Family's relationship with government, the press and the people. It looks at whether the institution can reach out to those, particularly the young, who see the House of Windsor as no more interesting or significant than the players in a soap opera. It asks, in short, whether the British monarchy has a future.