Download or read book The Coburgs of Europe written by Arturo E. Beéche and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: a history of the various branches of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha family and its branches in the UK, Belgium, Portugal, Austria, Bulgaria and all other royal and princely families they married into.
Download or read book The Coburgs written by Edmund Basil D'Auvergne and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coburgs written by Edmund B. D'Auvergne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Coburgs: The Story of the Rise of a Great Royal House To the house of saxe-coburg-gotha belong the kings of England and Belgium, the Tsar of Bulgaria, and the ex-king of Portugal. The Coburgs are allied with half the reigning families of Europe. Less than a hundred years ago their name was un known outside their tiny patrimonial duchy in the heart of Saxony. It is interesting to trace their rise from obscurity to world-wide eminence. The ducal families were so large and the revenues so slender that the younger children were all turned adrift as in the fairy-tales, to seek their fortunes. The wars which followed the French Revolution gave these noble adventurers their chance. One of them - delightfully enough, the youngest of the brothers won the heart and hand of the Princess of England. Naturally, in consequence of this alliance his family rose in the social scale. Every one was anxious to be connected with so desirable a family. Queens and princesses sought their hand, and when thrones fell vacant, Coburg princes were called upon to fill them. And the Coburg head seemed to fit any crown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Victoria and the Coburgs written by Dulcie M. Ashdown and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 1981 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Throne in Brussels written by Paul Belien and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Download or read book The Royal Houses of Europe written by Jacques Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coburgs written by Edmund Basil D'Auvergne and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating history of the Coburgs, one of the most influential royal houses in Europe. From their humble beginnings in Germany to their eventual rise as rulers of some of the most influential monarchies in Europe, this book offers a captivating look into the lives and legacy of the Coburgs. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Coburg Conspiracy written by Richard Sotnick and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the Duchy of Coburg, ruled by the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield (later Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) family, was a small, impoverished German fiefdom with no political influence, and little prospect of improving its lot. Less than fifty years later, the family had transformed its position. Their finances were healthy and they held, or were closely related to, many of the crowns of Europe. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the genes of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family ran in no fewer than thirteen royal families. Just how did they achieve this astonishing turnaround? Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert, and the subsequent marriages of their many, highly eligible, offspring, is well known. But Richard Sotnick gives a new twist to the story by concentrating on the earlier, less well-documented period, when the most astute of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family - Leopold, Prince Albert's uncle and subsequently King of the Belgians, and his mother, the Dowager Duchess Augusta - worked behind the scenes. Richard Sotnick draws on contemporary family documents, most in the original German and only made available to the public since the reunification of Germany. He tells of Prince Albert's mother, the tragic Luise, whose scandalous divorce resulted in her being exiled for life and banished from her sons. And he explores the rumours around Albert's paternity, proposing three plausible candidates for his fatherhood.
Download or read book The Coburgs of Belgium written by Theo Aronson and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coburgs, remarked Bismarck, were 'the stud farm of Europe'; if unkindly phrased, there was nevertheless some truth in the jibe. Within three generations of the foundation of the Belgian Royal House in 1831, Coburgs had tarried into almost every royal family in Europe. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the throne of Belgium is that it ever came into being: created after the successful rebellion against the Dutch, handed to an imported German prince, it was hoped, without much enthusiasm, that it would weld together a new nation of disparate and quarrelsome elements. It has survived to the present, in an era which has seen older and seemingly more secure dynasties vanish. The first Coburg of Belgium, Leopold I, as that 'Dear Uncle' to whom Queen Victoria was so abjectly devoted in the early years of her reign. Cheated by the death of his first wife, Charlotte, Princess of Wales, daughter of George IV and Queen Caroline, from becoming Prince Consort to the Queen of England, the resilient Leopold of Saxe-Coburg not only became the constitutional monarch of Belgium but married the daughter of the King of France. With this the Coburgs were well launched on a climb from their petty German principality to position of enormous world power. Leopold I's son, Leopold II, vastly enriched the family fortunes by his avaricious plunder of the Congo and scandalised Europe with his sexual promiscuity. In fact, not until the reign of 'Albert of the Belgians' (1909-34) and his beloved Queen Elisabeth, did the royal Coburgs prove themselves a very endearing family.
Download or read book The Coburgs of Belgium written by Theo Aronson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1969 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sovereigns and Courts of Europe written by Politikos (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book European Atrocity African Catastrophe written by Martin Ewans and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative of the creation, development and collapse both of King Leopold's regime, and of the Belgian colony that replaced it, provides insight into the nature of European colonialism in Africa and the consequences for Europe itself.
Download or read book Defiant Dynasty the Coburgs of Belgium written by Theo Aronson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book My Own Affairs written by Louise (Princess of Belgium) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
