Queen Victoria: A Personal History19 reviews Christopher Hibbert Da Capo Press, 2001 Wonderful Book + Victoria brought to life + all about vicky + Allows you to step in Queen Victoria's shoes!             Empress Zita of Austria (In Memoriam, 1) Eurohistory.com, 2005 In Memoriam is an exclusive EUROHISTORY royalty series dedicated to the life of some of the most interesting and intriguing royal personalities of the XXth century. Lavishly illustrated with many rare photographs from EUROHISTORY's renowned photo archive - each volume contains more than 130 wonderful images of the person it pays tribute to. We have also included family trees and genealogical ...             Maria Theresa3 reviews Edward Crankshaw Atheneum Books, 1986 The Great Eighteenth Century Conservative + Bravo! I could not put this book down! + Bravo! I couldn't put it down!!! Maria Theresa is known to some as the empress who hired police to round up prostitutes for "correction" and conducted a nonstop war on vice and excess. True it is that she was a staunch conservative, but she was also a great political survivor. She negotiated two potentially disastrous wars, the ...             Catherine the Great18 reviews Henri Troyat Plume, 1994 the strongest leader ever + Troyat's Catherint the Great + Informative History i hard to believe a little german priness would become the most powerful woman in europe.but that catherine story .married to a stupid czravish who had no sense. he was determine to stay greman in russian,but katherina made show she learn langauge ,religion and people.she learn the art of policital ...             The Empress of Farewells: The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico13 reviews Prince Michael of Greece Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002 Behind the Scenes Detailing, without trudging through muck Delightful and anctedotal. If you're already familiar with the subjects, then you'll enjoy the author's presentation of some heretofore undisclosed "facts" as well as insightful speculations to explain the ill-fated royal couple who claimed Mexican territories as their God-given right. Having ...             Katherine, the Virgin Widow (ISIS Large Print)3 reviews Jean Plaidy Isis Large Print Books, 2000 A WELL WRITTEN WORK OF HISTORICAL FICTION... + THE EARLY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF KATHERINE OF ARAGON... + Catherine of Aragon In this, the first book in the Katherine of Aragon trilogy, the author, Jean Plaidy, also known to her legion of fans as Victoria Holt, writes about young Katherine of Aragon, who as the Infanta of Spain, was betrothed to marry the sickly son of the parsimonious King Henry VII, Arthur, the Prince ...             Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley27 reviews Alison Weir Ballantine Books, 2004 Weir's Interpretation of the Mystery + The Queen of Scots Greatest Blunder Like many people, I'm aware of who Mary Queen of Scots is, how she died and the death of her husband. But, I knew little about the actual details of the case, the atmosphere of the time, and the specific evidence against her. In this book, Alison Weir reveals her theory of what happened to Lord ...             Nicholas and Alexandra106 reviews Robert K. Massie Ballantine Books, 2000 The Tragedy of The Twentieth Century + best book on royal couple + Among my Top 20 Books + Wonderful biography of the last of the Romanov dynasty + Suicide of a Dynasty             Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader (1451-1504)11 reviews William Thomas Walsh T A N Books & Publishers, 1987 The finest History I Have Ever Read... + Isabella the Magnificent + Beautiful, Remarkable, Prophetic As a life-long student of History with a BA in Medieval History from UCLA, I was absolutely floored by the triumph of historiographical method this book represents. The "reviewer" (who didn't have the integrity to name himself) certainly has no understanding of the role of the historian - to ...             Mad Love (2001)19 reviews Pilar López de Ayala, Daniele Liotti Sony Pictures, 2003 Walking The Fine Line Between Love And Obsession + MAD LOVE (JUANA LA LOCA) + Great movie! + required but oh so enjoyable             Trianon: A Novel of Royal France13 reviews Elena Maria Vidal Neumann Press, 2000 TRIANON--a fabulous read + Moved to tears + Beautiful and sad + an apocalypse of history and art!             A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story30 reviews Sergei Mironenko, Andrei Maylunas Doubleday, 1997 The Romanovs revealed.... + A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra + This Romanov Source-Book is utterly Indespensible + Intimate Look At Last Romanovs. + A Lifelong Passion - LOVED IT!!!             Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (Ballantine Reader's Circle)85 reviews Alison Weir Ballantine Books, 2001 A Dozen Ways Home Schoolers Can Use This Biography + Treachery and plotting...... Alison Weir's book *Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life,* which places Eleanor in the context of her times, provides a microcosm for the medieval world and can be used in a variety of ways to study European culture and history in the Middle Ages. Here are a dozen ways this book can be used: (1) the use ...             An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, ...30 reviews Hannah Pakula Simon & Schuster, 1997 The Empress Frederick: Remarkable! + Five Stars + A sympathetic, but great biography! + The Empress Frederick - revealed! + Excellent Portrait of Empress Frederick and Her Times             Elizabeth Wydeville: The Slandered Queen (England's Forgotten Queens)7 reviews Arlene Okerlund Tempus, 2005 Fascinating account of a fascinating woman! + good history + Elizabeth What a studied and fascinating work this book is! We've heard many versions of the presumed accounts of the 2 missing princes who disappeared from London Tower...but what of their mother, the first Queen Elizabeth? Although we've heard much smattering of slander about her in the past, now we have ...             The Life of S. Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Thuringia2 reviews Cecilia Anne Jones Adamant Media Corporation, 2001 St. Elizabeth of H ungary, A Saint Among Saints + A fairy tale life The life of this Medieval princess is the most touching and edifying saint's biography I have ever read. It is the story of a remarkable child of God guided by the highest of all ambitions, to imititate the life of her crucified Savior. This lovely book succeeds well in reaching the goal of better ...             The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria9 reviews Joan Haslip Phoenix, 2000 Reads more like a novel than a biography + The Lonely Empress + a true fariy princess + Pleasantly Surprised... + Hapsburg or Habsburg?             Mary Queen of Scots46 reviews Antonia Fraser Delta, 1993 exelant + Over all very good, but definitely biased + A powerful and troubled queen amazing book makes you feel as if you want to be in that world most touching and amazingly well written with no bias and no dodgy facts very good choice of language             Marie-Antoinette l'insoumise Simone Bertière Editions de Fallois, 2002             Margaret the Queen (Coronet Books)3 reviews Nigel G. Tranter Coronet Books & Publications, 1998 History Brought Alive + FROM QUEEN TO SAINT... + The rise and fall of Malcolm Canmore and Margaret the Saint The late Nigel Tranter was Scotland's foremost historical novelist. In this volume, he undertakes the story of Queen, now St. Margaret, who tore Scotland away from the Celtic Church and led it to Rome. The personality of this remarkable, arrogant, and in the end, conflicted woman comes to life ...