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Download or read book A Kiss for the King written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbaracartland.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anastasia is about to be married, which should be the most exciting day of any young girl's life. Pretty, impulsive and wise beyond her years it seems that the young Princess will make an ideal bride for one lucky man. There is only one flaw in the wedding plans - she is not in love with her bridegroom. Commanded to marry by Queen Victoria, Anastasia is horror struck at the thought of an arranged marriage. Having dreamt of true love since childhood, she despairs that a marriage based on political allegiance can ever be a happy one. Especially when her bridegroom, the handsome King of Maurona, is reputed to have a preference for anything French, including the seductive wife of Maurona's French ambassador. Determined to do her duty, Anastasia prepares to meet her future husband just days before their wedding. The roar of the assembled crowd tells her that she has won the love and approval of the people, but will she ever have the love of their King? As passions and political intrigue simmer amidst the idyllic palaces and sun-kissed olive groves of Maurona, Anastasia decides that this is a challenge she must rise to. As well as ensuring British protection for the tiny Principality from the greedy hands of neighbouring France, she determines to make her marriage a success. But can an innocent English rose compete with the dark smoldering beauty of the sensual Comtesse le Granmont? Two women, one man and only one winner - but as danger grows ever closer will the King realise who his real friends are, and which woman should be at his side, in time to save his country?

Download or read book 20 a Kiss for the King written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anastasia is about to be married, which should be the most exciting day of any young girl's life. Pretty, impulsive and wise beyond her years it seems that the young Princess will make an ideal bride for one lucky man. There is only one flaw in the wedding plans ? she is not in love with her bridegroom. Commanded to marry by Queen Victoria, Anastasia is horror struck at the thought of an arranged marriage. Having dreamt of true love since childhood, she despairs that a marriage based on political allegiance can ever be a happy one. Especially when her bridegroom, the handsome King of Maurona, is reputed to have a preference for anything French, including the seductive wife of Maurona's French ambassador. Determined to do her duty, Anastasia prepares to meet her future husband just days before their wedding. The roar of the assembled crowd tells her that she has won the love and approval of the people, but will she ever have the love of their King? As passions and political intrigue simmer amidst the idyllic palaces and sun-kissed olive groves of Maurona, Anastasia decides that this is a challenge she must rise to. As well as ensuring British protection for the tiny Principality from the greedy hands of neighbouring France, she determines to make her marriage a success. But can an innocent English rose compete with the dark smoldering beauty of the sensual Comtesse le Granmont? Two women, one man and only one winner ? but as danger grows ever closer will the King realise who his real friends are, and which woman should be at his side, in time to save his country?

Download or read book The King Wins written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Martiza of Salamos has fallen asleep when he suddenly becomes aware that something is moving in his room. To his astonishment he finds that it is Princess Veria who has come for his Coronation which is to take place the very next day. She, as her father has died, is now ruling the State of Kavolana which is a smaller Balkan country bordering on his. In a whisper she tells him that she has discovered a plot by her Prime Minister and his Cabinet to drug her so that she is found by them in his bed and then forced to marry her to save her reputation.The King realises that he has a bad reputation for pursuing beautiful women. But he has in fact no intention of getting married. He does, however, know that his Government has always wanted Kavolana to be joined to Salamos to make the two countries more significant together. It is more important now than at any other time because of the policy of the Russians who are infiltrating the Balkans and taking over every small Kingdom and Principality that they can. The King helps the Princess to escape from his bedroom in a very unconventional manner. Then he finds after his Coronation that he becomes involved in the difficulties of her country. They become friends as each of them realises that the other has no intention of marrying under any circumstances. The King is fully aware of the danger that their two countries are in. The Russians then think up a plot to marry Princess Veria to a Russian Prince and take over Kavolana that way. The King then turns to Queen Victoria for help as Great Britain is the only country that Russia has no wish to offend or fight. The King and the Princess save their countries, but they cannot save themselves from their own feelings. Finally, both the King and the Princess find happiness, which is all told in this unusual romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Download or read book A Kiss of Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malvina is young, beautiful - but most of all very rich. She dreams of marrying a man that loves her, and whom she in turn can love forever. Unfortunately her father has other ideas. Only too aware of the fortune hunters that prey on vulnerable young heiresses, he is determined she should marry the boy next door, Charles Arram, the son of the Marquis of Arramford. But Malvina has other ideas. Feisty and independent, she is horrified at the idea of marriage to a stranger, even a stranger that will unite their great families and ensure that their family estate becomes one of the most prestigious in England. Learning that the man her father intends for her is living a life of gaiety amongst the most beautiful women of the Beau Monde in Paris, Malvina becomes even more disillusioned. How can she possibly compete with the famous courtesans and actresses? More importantly does she want to even try? As her father leaves for Scotland, Malvina decides she will snatch the chance to travel incognito to Paris, where she will be able to see Charles Arram without him knowing he is being spied on. Taking her old Nanny along as a chaperone, she is sure that this will give her the opportunity to find out if this is a man she can love. Astounded at the decadence of Paris Society, a million miles away from her austere French Convent School, Malvina is soon learning a different kind of education amongst the wealthy men and famous cocottes. Are the salons of Paris really the place for an innocent abroad? Risking her fathers certain disapproval, and befriended by the Duc de Laviss, the brother of her old school friend, Malvina will stop at nothing to discover the secrets of true love as she plunges headlong into the steamy world of the Beau Monde.

Download or read book The King Without A heart written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While forced to work as her cousins lady in waiting, Titania travels with her to a small Balkan kindom and meets the king, who prides himself on having no heart.

Download or read book Bride to the King written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutiful, demure and far lovelier than she knows, Princess Zosina, the eldest daughter of the Archduke Ferdinand of Lutzelstein, is reluctantly obedient when her father announces that she must marry King Gyorgy of neighbouring Dorsia in order to create an alliance between the two nations that will defend them against the threat from the German Empire. Arriving in Dorsia on a State visit she is greeted by the country's Regent, a kind, handsome and very considerate Prince. By contrast and much to Zosina's dismay, her future husband King Gyorgy is as wild and disagreeable as his reputation had suggested. It seems that for the sake of her country she must yield to a life without love - until dramatic events supersede even the power of Kings and the hope is rekindled in the young Princess Zosina's heart that happiness and true love will triumph after all.

Download or read book The Queen Saves The King written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Queen Victoria is called upon to arrange a marriage for the dashing King Alexius of Vultarnia to save him and his country from the predatory Russians, the adventurous and beautiful Pythia takes the place of her cousin, Princess Erina, and heads for the small Balkan country in a British Battleship. Princess Erina has just fallen in love with a good-looking Peruvian and Pythia could not allow her happiness to be torn from her for cold political strategy. On her arrival in Vultarnia she receives a warm reception and she is determined to win the hearts of her new subjects and the heart of their cosmopolitan worldly King. The King is surprised and impressed by his new wife and sees how much he could learn from her. But a Russian plot threatens to throw this popular new marriage into jeopardy and Pythia must think quickly in order to save the King and the beautiful country of Vultarnia. Will King Alexius fall in love with Pythia or remain attached to his glamorous and seductive Russian mistress? Will Pythia be able to stop a sinister plot to capture the King before it is too late? And will the King discover Pythia’s true identity and that she is not Royal? Find out in ‘The Queen Saves the King’, an exciting and moving romance from the incomparable Barbara Cartland.

Download or read book A Kiss from the heart written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving his family home, Ledbury Hall, in the capable hands of his younger brother, Lord Robert Templeton plunges into the delights of London nightlife. However, he is soon forced to return to home. Disenchanted by being pursued for his title, he swears he will never marry. A timely re-acquaintance with childhood friend, Miranda Whitby, who once saved his life, he is reminded of a promise he made her many years earlier.

Download or read book A Kiss in the Desert written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to buy some horses from a Syrian Sheik, the Earl of Brack and his friend, Charles Kenwood, concoct a plan to turn Charles's sister into the princess that the Sheik so desires.

Download or read book A Princess Prays written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Heir to the throne of Valdina, beautiful Attila vows two things - to do everything in her power to return her beloved sick father, King Sigismund, to health and to find true love. But it seems that her stepmother, the scheming and selfish Queen Margit has other ideas for her future. Desperate to marry her as quickly as possible to Prince Otto, a young man with a shadowy past, Queen Margit's eyes are set firmly on the throne for herself. And it seems she will stop at nothing to get her own way and rule Valdina alone.Turning to Father Jozsef, her childhood mentor, for help Attila agrees to go on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of St. Janos, not only to avoid Prince Otto, but also to pray for the King's speedy recovery. Guided by the spirit of her mother and the unconditional love of Father Jozsef, she also fervently prays that she will find a man to love worthy of her royal blood. In a journey filled with spiritual insights, adventure and great sadness, Attila comes to realise the true meaning of love when a handsome stranger awakens in her feelings that she has only dreamt of.But will the happiness she finds be snatched from her as Attila bravely returns home? Will she be forced into a loveless, but politically astute marriage? Or will true love protect her from the dangers surrounding her?One thing is for certain life in Valdina will ever be the same again as love battles to overcome the difficulties of royal duty and the intrigues of Queen Margit."

Download or read book The Queen of Hearts written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zelie and Sola are identical twins. Impossibly beautiful and impossible to tell apart, but only to the eye. Because, while the ‘word on the street’ is that spoilt, fickle and flirtatious Zelie is a little devil and they say that demure and thoughtful Sola is an angel by comparison. Zelie dreams of marrying a King and the riches that will bring. But Sola only craves the pure and enduring love her mother and father found and always treasured. Just when Zelie’s dream comes true, Fate steps in and forces Sola to take her sister’s place, at first reluctantly and then wholeheartedly marrying the King of Arramia to save his people from Revolution and bloodshed. But how can Sola ever be happy finding love at such a cost to her twin and under false pretences until death do they part?

Download or read book 47 a King in Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Maximilian of Valdastien, handsome, clever but with a well deserved reputation as a ladies man, is under pressure from his Prime Minister to leave behind his bachelor ways, get married and produce an heir as soon as possible. Despite the fact that he vowed never to marry, with political unrest in Europe and encroaching danger from the Prussians, the King reluctantly decides to visit the surrounding countries to seek a suitable Queen. Meanwhile, beautiful but tempestuous Princess Zita flies across the alpine countryside of neighbouring Aldross on her dazzling horse Pegasus. Full of a fire that matches the stunning flame red of her hair and sparkling with intelligence, Zita could not be more different to her elder sister, the placid and homely Princess Sophie. So when a visit by King Maximilian is heralded, their shrewd mother wastes no time in ordering Princess Zita to stay out of sight so that she cannot catch the King's eye and ruin any matrimonial chances for her sister. Angry at being left out and curious to see a real King, especially one with such an intriguing reputation, Zita cooks up a cunning plan to disguise herself as a simple country girl. Enlisting the help of her secret friend Gretel, Zita is sure that the rest of her family will be far too busy preparing for the King's visit to guess what she is scheming. But Fate has other things in store for Zita and, although her plans to catch a glimpse of their esteemed guest go to plan, she ends up getting much more than she bargained for. Dazzled by the charm and wit of the King and, sensing that she has found a kindred spirit, she is desperate that he should not find out her secret and discover who she really is. But if she is honest with herself, having met him once, she wishes that she could see him a good deal more. Torn between her feelings for the King and her sense of family duty it seems that the only course she can take is to make sure that their paths never cross again.

Download or read book A King in Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by W. Clement Stone. This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Zita meets the visiting King Maximilian against her parents' wishes by disguising herself as a waitress.

Download or read book A Royal Love Match written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At The Battle of Worcester in 1651, Prince Charles with thirteen thousand troops, both English and Scottish, is heavily defeated by Oliver Cromwell and flees to France. Clive More escapes the battlefield to a friendly house and is saved from Cromwell's men by the Nanny of Alissa aged nine. Nanny disguises him as a girl and hides him in her bedroom. After the Prince is restored to the throne as Charles II in 1660, Alissa, her father the Earl of Dalwaynnie, her stepmother and her stepsister Nancy, move to London. The King, grateful for the Earl's support, gives them Apartments at the Royal Palace of Whitehall. Clive More, who is now the Marquis of Morelanton, comes down from the North. He and the King are the same age and spent a great deal of time together, including playing tennis at which they both excel. The Countess, the new wife of the Earl of Dalwaynnie, is determined that her daughter Nancy should marry Clive now he is a Marquis and contrives to keep him away from Alissa, who has grown in the nine years since they last met into an outstanding beauty. How the Countess intrigues with a strange man called Lord Pronett to remove Alissa from the Court and away from Clive. How Nancy helps Clive save her. And how they find love and happiness is all told in this exciting historical romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Download or read book A Rebel Princess written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her father, the Grand Duke, tells the lovely young Princess Tora of Radoslav that she is to marry the aged King of Salona, she is appalled and horrified.But no amount of pleading by her will change her fatherÕs mind.So Tora decides that she must find a way to see her prospective husband without his being aware of her presence and then try to find a way to escape her awful Fate.Since she is a talented musician, she has little difficulty in persuading her dear friend, Professor Lazar Srejovic, the nationÕs greatest musician, to allow her to join his famous quartet for a concert at the King of SalonaÕs Palace.She devises a cunning plan to escape from the Palace of Radoslav, so that her father cannot stop her and joins up secretly with the ProfessorÕs quartet to travel by carriage to Maglic, the Capital of Salona.But on arriving at an inn on the way disguised in peasant dress, she is terrified to unexpectantly overhear a sinister plot to murder and violently overthrow the King of Salona and seize his country by force.ÊHer life is now in danger, but, when a dashing and handsome stranger comes to her rescue when she is hiding in a wood near the inn, she loses her heart to him utterly in a moment and just as quickly loses all hope that they can ever be together.And her future is sealed for ever with no hope of love and happiness.Ê

Download or read book Crowned with Love written by Barbara Cartland and published by Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: