Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France, who had been more like a monk than a king, and certainly not much of a lover. This woman is Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, and her sole purpose now…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: More than four hundred years ago, seven people — five of them women — were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death? Alison Weir's gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling façade lies treachery… Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the throne, and deferred to as the King`s heiress, but that all changes when her mother Anne Boleyn – Henry`s great passion and folly – is executed for…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. The noise was heard as far away as Holyrood Palace, where Queen Mary was attending a wedding masque. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, the naked corpses of Darnley and his valet. Neither had died in the explosion,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: ‘This magnificent new book is Alison Weir's greatest achievement: a detailed biography of Henry VIII, set against the cultural, social and political background of his court — the most magnificent court ever seen in England — and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces. Seen from this new perspective, Henry VIII emerges as a fully-rounded and realistic personality, not the two-dimensional…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince's signature, were impounded and examined in 1866 by the Attorney General. Learned opinion at the time leaned to the view that these documents were…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Presents a full-length biography of Isabella of France, Edward II's queen — one of the most notorious femme fatales in history — that aims to change the way we think of her and her world, for ever. She was popularly known as the 'She-Wolf of France'.