Titres dans Royauté

L'8 settembre 2022, a pochi mesi dalle celebrazioni per il Giubileo di Platino, si è spenta a novantasei anni tra le mura del castello di Balmoral in Scozia Elisabetta II, l'ultima grande regina. Perché "l'ultima"? Perché dopo di lei verranno tre re. Perché nessun monarca britannico ha regnato più a lungo. E perché ci ha accompagnato dal primo dopoguerra fino alla rivoluzione digitale, diventando una presenza costante per almeno tre generazioni, non soltanto nella vita dei propri sudditi ma del mondo intero.

Die aktuellste Biografie mit Exklusivmaterial aus den Royal Archives. Schüchtern, aber mit stählernem Selbstbewusstsein. Unergründlich trotz eines Lebens in der Öffentlichkeit. Gläubig. Unsentimental. Neugierig. Mit all diesen Begrifflichkeiten ließe sich Queen Elizabeth II. beschreiben. Eine Regentin, die mit stärkeren Veränderungen konfrontiert wurde als alle anderen royalen Staatsoberhäupter der englischen Geschichte. Dabei wurde sie nicht als Thronfolgerin geboren, ihr Leben wurde durch die Abdankung König Edwards VIII. unvermittelt in andere Bahnen gelenkt.

King Edward I was the first of three Edwards who reigned in perfect succession. He was one of the most important kings in English history, but he was also one of the most controversial. This was the king who subdued Wales and fought Scotland to a standstill for much of his reign. He battled leading Scottish figures that are recognizable to even novice history students. Both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce butted heads with this English ruler.

Il lunghissimo regno di Elisabetta II è la storia enigmatica di una donna timida e inavvicinabile che dell'accettazione del proprio destino, dell'appassionata difesa della corona, ha fatto la suprema ragione di vita e uno schermo impenetrabile. Con un'eccezione: la fotografia, che l'ha accompagnata nel suo lungo viaggio di sovrana e nell'iconografia del secolo. L'unico palcoscenico in cui The Queen, cedendo anche solo per pochi minuti alle leggi universali della luce e alle esigenze pratiche di un ritrattista, si è davvero rivelata.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of our time: Charles, who has taken his place on the throne after being the oldest and longest-serving heir in British history...

Escape to the past with this third-in-series, local history, and memoir-biography. Margaret Bramford presents the life and times and true accounts from Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcestershire (UK), as recollected by Upton folk themselves, looking back over the last century. Enjoy this treasure trove of observations and anecdotes, a fascinating insight into the local characters' lives and the social history of a river town in Worcestershire, England, including Florence Bramford, who served and traveled the world on royal tours for 30 years as a ladies' maid to two Queen Elizabeths.

From a young age, Charles V showed tremendous potential and intelligence. As his father and grandfather before him continued to weaken France and ruin the prestige of their royal house, Charles’ arrival on the scene couldn’t have come at a better time.

The life of Demetrius (337-283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death of Alexander (323-282 BCE), a time of unparalleled turbulence and instability in the ancient world. With no monarch able to take Alexander’s place, his empire fragmented into five pieces. Capitalizing on good looks, youth, and sexual prowess, Demetrius sought to weld those pieces together and recover the dream of a single world-state, with a new Alexander—himself—at its head.

Francine Prose delves into ancient Greek and Roman literary sources, as well as modern representations of Cleopatra in art, theater, and film. She challenges the common narratives driven by orientalism and misogyny and offers a new interpretation of Cleopatra’s history from the lens of our own era.

He has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he aims much higher. A landmark publication, Charles: The Heart of a King reveals Prince Charles in all his complexity: the passionate views that mean he will never be as remote and impartial as his mother; the compulsion to make a difference and the many and startling ways in which the heir to the throne of the United Kingdom and fifteen other realms has already made his mark.

The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II—and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III. Much more than a linear history, this is the intertwined story of royalty and state, of divisions, invasions, rivalries, death and glory; the story of nation fates tied with the personal endeavours of monarchs through the ages. This book is a necessary and comprehensive guide to the British Monarchy and how it has shaped history—and our lives today.

Sono passati quasi settant'anni dal giorno dell'incoronazione – la prima trasmessa in diretta televisiva – sotto le magnifiche volte dell'abbazia londinese di Westminster, e da quel 2 giugno la fama e la popolarità di Elisabetta ii non hanno fatto che aumentare. Nel suo ruolo pubblico ha vissuto in prima persona cambiamenti storici epocali, attraversando guerre mondiali e tempeste politiche; come capo della famiglia Windsor ha dovuto affrontare scandali e tragedie, divorzi e rappacificazioni.

She was peaches-and-cream innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt Philip Mountbatten in November 1947 is remembered as the beginning of an extraordinary lifelong union but success was not guaranteed. Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy plunges us back into 1940s Britain where a teenage Princess fell in love with a foreign Prince.

Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Just some of the many labels attached to the irrepressible, controversial Raine Spencer: Countess, socialite and stepmother to Diana, Princess of Wales. But who was the real Raine? What was hidden behind the immaculately manicured public façade and her overwhelmingly negative tabloid image? From her childhood days as daughter of romantic novelist powerhouse, Barbara Cartland, to Westminster councillor and wife of Earl Spencer, Three Times a Countess recounts Raine's compelling and glamorous life.

Perfect for fans of The Crown, legendary New York Times bestselling biographer Andrew Morton provides the definitive story of Queen Elizabeth II's life and legacy. Painfully shy, Elizabeth Windsor’s personality was well suited to her youthful ambition of living quietly in the country, raising...

A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives—from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and...

King Philip VI was the first French King of the famous House Valois, and he inherited France at the height of its power. Unfortunately, it wouldn’t remain that way for long. His fierce rivalry with King Edward of England destabilized the region, threw France into turmoil, and launched one of Europe's most infamous wars: The Hundred Years’ War. Originally born into minor nobility, Philip was never considered to one day be king. The life journey of Philip VI, the first king of House Valois, is a truly fascinating story filled with unsuspecting inheritance.

The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England, the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her deployment of royal female agency.

The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has been heir to the British throne since he was three years old. In this lively and illuminating account, royal biographer Helen Cathcart charts the first thirty years of Prince Charles's life, from his birth at Buckingham Palace in 1948 and rugby-playing schooldays at Gordonstoun, through his undergraduate years cycling to lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequent military career in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.

César Cervera trae al lector una divertida, curiosa y, sobre todo, histórica crónica sobre los Borbones españoles, sus extravagancias, sus locuras y también su tiempo y corte. Una perspectiva diferente e innovadora para conocer, en sus grandezas y desventuras, a una de las dos grandes estirpes monárquicas que han ocupado el trono de España desde el siglo XVIII.