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Book A Royal Passion  The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France

Download or read book A Royal Passion The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France written by Katie Whitaker and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of how the Protestant English King Charles I, and his young, French, Catholic wife, Henrietta, found unexpected love and helped reign over an era of peace and prosperity until a war with Puritan Scotland risked their lives.

Book A Royal Passion

Download or read book A Royal Passion written by Katie Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From quarrels, passion, treason to execution, discover one of the great overlooked love stories of history. King Charles I was a Protestant. Henrietta Maria, a 15-year-old French princess, was a Catholic. Arranged for political gain, their marriage was a dangerous experiment, yet against the odds they fell in love. However Henrietta's Catholicism fuelled rumours of improper influence over a supposedly helpless king. Unable to trust his Parliament, Charles's fear for the queen's safety plummeted the country into civil war and forced her to flee abroad, never to see her husband again. They kept up a poignant correspondence but in 1649, the king was condemned as a traitor and publicly executed, thus ending an extraordinary partnership that influenced the course of history.

Book A Royal Passion

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  • Author : Anne M. Lyden
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1606061550
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book A Royal Passion written by Anne M. Lyden and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age. A Royal Passion explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria’s embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest collections of photographs, including works by renowned photographers such as Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Victoria was also the first British monarch to have her life recorded by the camera: images of her as wife, mother, widow, and empress proliferated around the world at a time when the British Empire spanned the globe. The featured essays consider Victoria’s role in shaping the history of photography as well as photography’s role in shaping the image of the Queen. Including more than 150 color images—several rarely seen before—drawn from the Royal Collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 4 to June 20, 2014.

Book Royal Passion

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  • Author : Jennifer Blake
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780727844194
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Royal Passion written by Jennifer Blake and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid the colour and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. He did not know however, that Mara was deliberately trying to seduce him in order to pay back a family debt to the ruthless Nicholas de Landes.

Book A Royal Passion

Download or read book A Royal Passion written by Robert W. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal passion

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  • Author : Geneva Lee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Royal passion written by Geneva Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die amerikanische Absolventin der Oxford University Clara Bishop wird auf einer Abschlussparty von einem Unbekannten geküsst. Am nächsten Tag ist ihr Foto in allen Zeitungen, denn bei dem Fremden handelt es sich um Prinz Alexander, den britischen Thronfolger ...

Book The Age of Faction

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  • Author : Alan Marshall
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780719049750
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Age of Faction written by Alan Marshall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monarchical government in the later 17th century was a political fact of life and remains central to an understanding of the period. The subject of this book is the court of the later Stuart kings in the period 1660-1702. Its purpose is to provide an introduction to some of the emergent themes of court politics, culture and society. Marshall achieves this by analyzing the ritual side of court government in its structural, political and cultural guises.

Book The Royal Passion bearers of Russia

Download or read book The Royal Passion bearers of Russia written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Royal Renegades

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  • Author : Linda Porter
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2018-02-20
  • ISBN : 1466858486
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Royal Renegades written by Linda Porter and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly called Katherine the Queen “Rich, perceptive, and creative.” In Royal Renegades, Porter examines the turbulent lives of the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars. The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son as Charles II eleven years later. But what happened to the king’s six surviving children is far less familiar. Casting new light on the heirs of the doomed king, acclaimed historian Linda Porter brings to life their personalities, legacies, and rivalries for the first time. As their family life was shattered by war, Elizabeth and Henry were used as pawns in the parliamentary campaign against their father; Mary, the Princess Royal, was whisked away to the Netherlands as the child bride of the Prince of Orange; Henriette, Anne’s governess, escaped with the king’s youngest child to France where she eventually married the cruel and flamboyant Philippe d’Orleans. When their "dark and ugly" brother Charles eventually succeeded his father to the English throne after fourteen years of wandering, he promptly enacted a vengeful punishment on those who had spurned his family, with his brother James firmly in his shadow. A tale of love and endurance, of battles and flight, of educations disrupted, the lonely death of a young princess and the wearisome experience of exile, Royal Renegades charts the fascinating story of the children of loving parents who could not protect them from the consequences of their own failings as monarchs and the forces of upheaval sweeping England.

Book The Prince s Passion

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  • Author : J. P. Oliver
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 9781728843841
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book The Prince s Passion written by J. P. Oliver and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AmandI never expected my little brother's best friend to be so handsome. As crown prince, I certainly have my pick of gorgeous men all drooling for so much as a glance. Daniel isn't like that. He was a little surprised about Ricard's royal lineage, but he's taken the shock well. I wonder what else he can take with such grace. DanielWhy didn't my best friend ever tell me he was royalty? I don't think it'd have changed anything, but wow! And wow! He's in debt up to his eyeballs to a bunch of very bad people. His brother seems like a good guy, though. Smart, fun, and incredibly good-looking. Is it out of bounds to have a crush on your buddy's brother?I don't know, but I'm going to find out. This 60,000 word novel is smoking hot, filled with royalty drama and sticky relationships. 18+ only. This material is intended for adults!

Book A Short History of Europe  1600 1815

Download or read book A Short History of Europe 1600 1815 written by Lisa Rosner and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and lively survey that introduces students to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on new work in gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to illustrate the animating force of the period: the assumption that the world could be made amenable to human reason, though precisely how that was to be done remained highly contested. The nature of those contests--in politics, culture, and society--is traced throughout the book. The work includes discussions of developments in science, art, and literature. A chronology of people and events concludes each chapter and there is a glossary of key terms at the end of the book.

Book Passion and the Prince

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  • Author : Penny Jordan
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 145921921X
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Passion and the Prince written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just who is Lily Wrightington—cynical fashion photographer or studious art historian? Prince Marco di Lucchesi can't hide his haughty disdain for this Englishwoman—or his strong attraction to her! As they tour the captivating palazzos of northern Italy together for Lily's work project, the atmosphere between them sizzles with dislike and sensual promise…until shadows from Lily's past turn up to taunt her. But if Marco drops his guard and offers the protection Lily is seeking, the passion he's trying to keep firmly under wraps might just unleash itself, too….

Book Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria

Download or read book Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria written by Susan Dunn-Hensley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, epitomized by the witch, often merged with these celebratory depictions. By tracing these competing representations through the Jacobean and Caroline periods, Dunn-Hensley peels back layers of misogyny from historical scholarship and points to rich new lines of inquiry. Few have written about Anna’s religious beliefs, and comparing her Catholicism with Henrietta Maria’s illuminates the ways in which both women were politically subversive. This book offers an important corrective to centuries of negative representation, and contributes to a fuller understanding of the role of queenship in the English Civil War and the fall of the Stuart monarchy.

Book Ruthlessly Royal  Rich  Ruthless and Secretly Royal   Passion  Purity and the Prince   The Royal Marriage  Mills   Boon By Request   Self Made Millionaires  Book 1

Download or read book Ruthlessly Royal Rich Ruthless and Secretly Royal Passion Purity and the Prince The Royal Marriage Mills Boon By Request Self Made Millionaires Book 1 written by Robyn Donald and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich, Ruthless and Secretly Royal Exotic beauty Hannah Court has never known a man who excites her as quickly as Kelt. He’s achingly persuasive and thrillingly powerful. But the chiselled god who pleasures her at night is holding a secret...one almost as dark as her own.

Book Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire

Download or read book Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire written by Gauvin Alexander Bailey and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning from the West African coast to the Canadian prairies and south to Louisiana, the Caribbean, and Guiana, France's Atlantic empire was one of the largest political entities in the Western Hemisphere. Yet despite France's status as a nation at the forefront of architecture and the structures and designs from this period that still remain, its colonial building program has never been considered on a hemispheric scale. Drawing from hundreds of plans, drawings, photographic field surveys, and extensive archival sources, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire focuses on the French state's and the Catholic Church's ideals and motivations for their urban and architectural projects in the Americas. In vibrant detail, Gauvin Alexander Bailey recreates a world that has been largely destroyed by wars, natural disasters, and fires – from Cap-François (now Cap-Haïtien), which once boasted palaces in the styles of Louis XV and formal gardens patterned after Versailles, to failed utopian cities like Kourou in Guiana. Vividly illustrated with examples of grand buildings, churches, and gardens, as well as simple houses and cottages, this volume also brings to life the architects who built these structures, not only French military engineers and white civilian builders, but also the free people of colour and slaves who contributed so much to the tropical colonies. Taking readers on a historical tour through the striking landmarks of the French colonial landscape, Architecture and Urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire presents a sweeping panorama of an entire hemisphere of architecture and its legacy.

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  • ISBN : 1399082930
  • Pages : 242 pages

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Book Royal Scandals  Forbidden Passion  His Forbidden Pregnant Princess   The Sheikh s Pregnancy Proposal   Shock Heir for the King

Download or read book Royal Scandals Forbidden Passion His Forbidden Pregnant Princess The Sheikh s Pregnancy Proposal Shock Heir for the King written by Maisey Yates and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irresistible attraction