EDWARD II'S NIECES
Author | : KATHRYN. WARNER |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9781399021142 |
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Author | : KATHRYN. WARNER |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9781399021142 |
Author | : Susan Higginbotham |
Publisher | : Sourcebooks, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1402227299 |
From the bedchamber to the battlefield, through treachery and fidelity, one woman is imprisoned by the secrets of the crown. It is an age where passion reigns and treachery runs as thick as blood. Young Eleanor has two men in her life: her uncle King Edward II, and her husband Hugh le Despenser, a mere knight but the newfound favorite of the king. She has no desire to meddle in royal affairs—she wishes for a serene, simple life with her family. But as political unrest sweeps the land, Eleanor, sharply intelligent yet blindly naïve, becomes the only woman each man can trust. Fiercely devoted to both her husband and her king, Eleanor holds the secret that could destroy all of England—and discovers the choices no woman should have to make. At its heart, The Traitor's Wife is a unique love story that every reader will connect with. Gold Medalist, historical / military fiction, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards * Includes bonus reading group guide PRAISE FOR THE TRAITOR'S WIFE: "Conveys emotions and relationships quite poignantly... entertaining historical fiction." — Kirkus Discoveries "Higginbotham's talents lie not only in her capacity for detailed genealogical research of the period, but also in her skill in bringing these historical figures to life with passion, a wonderful sense of humor, honor, and love." — Historical Novels Review Online
Author | : Henry Richards Luard |
Publisher | : London, Longman |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, KING OF ENGLAND,D. 1066 |
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Author | : Matthew Hale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Criminal law |
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Author | : Thomas Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : C.C. Baldwin |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 989 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 5874721363 |
Author | : Kathryn Warner |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526715635 |
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century, his dazzling rise as favorite to the king and his disastrous fall.Born in the late 1280s, Hugh married King Edward I of Englands eldest granddaughter when he was a teenager. Ambitious and greedy to an astonishing degree, Hugh chose a startling route to power: he seduced his wifes uncle, the young King Edward II, and became the richest and most powerful man in the country in the 1320s. For years he dominated the English government and foreign policy, and took whatever lands he felt like by both quasi-legal and illegal methods, with the kings connivance. His actions were to bring both himself and Edward II down, and Hugh was directly responsible for the first forced abdication of a king in English history; he had made the horrible mistake of alienating and insulting Edwards queen Isabella of France, who loathed him, and who had him slowly and grotesquely executed in her presence in November 1326.
Author | : Natalie Fryde |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2004-01-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521548069 |
This book reassesses the unusually violent rule of Edward II and the Despensers between 1321 and 1326. It examines the social dislocation caused by Edward's execution of his opponents and the confiscation of their lands in 1322 and the perversion of the law which accompanied it. From an examination of a large amount of unpublished material, Mrs Fryde shows how an exceptionally grasping courtier, the younger Despenser, worked with an equally grasping king to produce for the one an enormously swollen landed estate and for the other a vast hoard of treasure. The new evidence brought to light suggests that it was greed for wealth rather than any spirit of innovation which brought the Exchequer reforms of these years. Queen Isabella's contribution to the king's overthrow and Edward's disastrous relations with her brother, the king of France, are worked out in detail and there is a separate chapter on the contribution of London to the downfall of the regime.
Author | : Margaret Rhodes |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0857901915 |
The bestselling behind-the-scenes memoir of the royal family by a cousin who served in MI5—and as one of the Queen’s bridesmaids. Includes photos! A Sunday Times number one bestseller in the United Kingdom, this is the intimate and revealing autobiography of Margaret Rhodes, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and niece of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. Margaret was born into the Scottish aristocracy, into a now almost vanished world of privilege. Royalty often came to stay, and her house was run in the style of Downton Abbey. During the Second World War, she “lodged” at Buckingham Palace while she worked for MI5. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin, Princess Elizabeth, to Prince Philip. Three years later, the King and Queen attended her own wedding, in which Princess Margaret was a bridesmaid. In 1990, she was appointed as a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother, acting also as her companion, which she describes in touching detail. In the early months of 2002, she spent as much time as possible with her ailing aunt and was at her bedside when she died. The next morning, she went to Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom to pray, and in farewell dropped her a final curtsey. The Queen Mother regarded Margaret Rhodes as her “third daughter,” and she has been extremely close to her cousins, the Queen and Princess Margaret, throughout their lives. Full of charming anecdotes, fascinating characters, and personal photographs, this is an unparalleled insight into the private life of the British monarchy. “Surprisingly addictive.” —New Zealand Herald
Author | : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
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