The ROYAL HOUSES of EUROPE - the Descendants of King Charles II
Author: JACQUES. ARNOLD
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Published: 2018-01-03
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780995717442
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Author: JACQUES. ARNOLD
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Published: 2018-01-03
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780995717442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacques Arnold
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Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780995717480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles M. Hansen
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 428
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geoffrey Hindley
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780786708284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the history of present and former ruling families of continental Europe and speculates on the role of monarchy in the future.
Author: Jacques Arnold
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Published: 2018-11-02
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780995717473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda Porter
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-02-20
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 1466858486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublishers 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.
Author: J. H. Elliott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-07-26
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521406741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of the great struggle in seventeenth-century Europe between France and Spain: the triumph of France assured the fame of Richelieu, while Spain's failure condemned Olivares to historical neglect. This fascinating book by the distinguished historian J. H. Elliott argues that contemporaries, for whom Olivares was at least as important as Richelieu, shared none of posterity's certainty about the inevitability of that outcome. His absorbing comparative portrait of the two men, as personalities and as statesmen, through their policies and their mutual struggle, offers unique insights into seventeenth-century Europe and the nature of power and statesmanship.
Author: Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 080634945X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first basic tool in English to trace the origins of Chinese surnames. At the heart of the work are three principal chapters. Chapter 1 describes the history of Chinese surnames, the research on Chinese surnames in literature, and reasons surnames have changed in Chinese history. Chapter 2, by far the largest of the chapters, delivers a genealogical analysis of more than 600 Chinese surnames. Chapter 3 consists of an annotated bibliography of Chinese and English language sources on Chinese surnames. The work concludes with separate indexes to family names, authors, titles, and Chinese-character stroke numbers (one mechanism used for grouping Chinese characters).
Author: Jacques Arnold
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Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780995717404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: JACQUES. ARNOLD
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Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9780995717497
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