Author: Hubert ColePublisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
First Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Author: Hubert ColePublisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
First Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Author: Hubert ColePublisher: New York : Viking Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
First gentleman of the bedchamber
Author: Hubert ColeFirst Gentleman of the Bedchamber
Author: Robert ColeThe English Court in the Reign of George 1
Author: Private Memoirs Written by Himself as Gentleman of the Bedchamber to King Charles the First
Author: Sir K. DigbyWorks
Author: VoltaireJournals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
The Works of Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. With Notes. By T. Francklin ... T. Smollett, M.D., and Others. A New Edition
Author: VoltaireElizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts
Author: Nadine AkkermanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192654640
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The dazzling new biography of one of history's most misunderstood queens Elizabeth Stuart is one the most misrepresented - and underestimated - figures of the seventeenth century. Labelled a spendthrift more interested in the theatre and her pet monkeys than politics or her children, and long pitied as 'The Winter Queen', the direct ancestor of Elizabeth II was widely misunderstood. Nadine Akkerman's biography reveals an altogether different woman, painting a vivid picture of a queen forged in the white heat of European conflict. Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James VI and I, was married to Frederick V, Elector Palatine in 1613. The couple were crowned King and Queen of Bohemia in 1619, only to be deposed and exiled to the Dutch Republic in 1620. Elizabeth then found herself at the epicentre of the Thirty Years' War and the Civil Wars, political and military struggles that defined seventeenth-century Europe. Following her husband's death in 1632, Elizabeth fostered a cult of widowhood, dressing herself and her apartments in black, and conducted a long and fierce political campaign to regain her children's birthright - by force, if possible - wielding her pen with the same deft precision with which she once speared boars from horseback. Through deep immersion in the archives and masterful detective work, Akkerman overturns the received view of Elizabeth Stuart, showing her to be a patron of the arts and canny stateswoman with a sharp wit and a long memory. On returning to England in 1661, Elizabeth Stuart found a country whose people still considered her their 'Queen of Hearts'. Akkerman's biography reveals the impact Elizabeth Stuart had on both England and Europe, demonstrating that she was more than just the grandmother of George I.