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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Prince Charles is the oldest heir to the British throne in more than three hundred years. This biography -- the product of four years of research and hundreds of interviews with palace officials, former girlfriends, spiritual gurus, and more -- is filled with fresh insights into Charles's life, in and out of the public eye. It begins with his lonely childhood, in which he struggled to live up to his father's expectations and sought companionship from...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “masterly account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the life and loves of King Charles III, Britain’s first king since 1952, shedding light on the death of Diana, his marriage to Camilla, and his preparations to take the throne
Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look at the man who was the...
Sally Bedell Smith returns once again to the British royal family to give us a new look at the man who was the...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Draws on exclusive interviews with members of Prince Charles' inner circle and on rare access to the prince himself to examine court life, Charles' struggles, his achievements as a philanthropist and activist, and his popular marriage to Princess Diana.
Author
Publisher
William Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Tom Bower reveals the power, passion and defiance of Prince Charles. Few heirs to the throne have suffered as much humiliation as Prince Charles. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, he has struggled to overcome his unpopularity. After Diana's death, his approval rating crashed to 4% and has been only rescued by his marriage to Camilla. Nevertheless, just one third of Britons now support him to be the next king. Many still...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In an offbeat alternate universe romantic comedy, Daisy, an underachieving, 30-something cleaning lady wins a million dollars and follows a lifelong dream of going to London and meeting Prince Charles. Through a series of misunderstandings, the Royal Family doesn't realize Daisy's station in life until after she and Charles have fallen in love"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1976 Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene caused a seismic shift in our understanding of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution and was called 'The best work of popular science ever written" by the New York Review of Books. Then in 2006, Dawkins wrote The God Delusion, transforming the world's cultural and intellectual landscape once again with this takedown of religious faith. In this carefully curated collection of forty-two...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
"Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specif-ically, there could never be "another Diana"--a mem-ber of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the Brit-ish...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At age thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At twenty-one, she earned her most important title: Mother. As she fell in love, first with Prince Charles and then with her sons, William and Harry, the world fell in love with the young royal family, Diana most of all. With one son destined to be King of England, and one to find his own way, she taught them dual lessons about real life and royal tradition. "William and...
Author
Language
English
Description
From bestselling author and historical consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown, an unparalleled insider account of tumult, secrecy and schism in the Royal family. The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men? From royal insider, biographer and historian Robert Lacey, this book...
13) Princess Diana
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lady Diana Spencer was born into a family in the British aristocracy. Often described as the "people's princess" because of her friendly manner, Diana was the first Englishwoman for 300 years to marry an heir to the British throne. Tragically, Diana died in a car crash at the age of just 36. In the 1980's and 1990's Diana became an activist for important causes, such as victims of AIDS and of land mines. She helped to raise awareness of these issues...
14) The royals
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the men and women of the British royal family, drawing from documented sources and interviews with employees of the royal household, friends and relations, and members of Parliament, to discuss the private and public lives of Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, the Duchess of York, and other royals.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles--and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Diana's Boys revealed the powerful bond between the teenaged princes, and how it strengthened even more in the wake of their mother's tragic death. Now, twenty years later, Queen Elizabeth II is in her mid-nineties, Prince Charles is in his seventies, and all eyes are turned increasingly toward William and Harry again. Andersen examines how the Queen's behind-the-scenes maneuvering to mold her grandsons in the Windsor image after Diana's death, and...
17) Spencer
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. This is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. A timeless story of love and betrayal, loss and redemption, flickering against the vivid backdrop of eighteenth-century Scotland, as hope, the brightest of tapers, lights the way home.
20) Diana
Author
Language
English
Description
Draws on interviews with individuals closest to the late princess to discuss her life behind the scandals, tracing her courtship with Prince Charles, transformation into a high-profile public figure, and the role of Camilla Parker Bowles in the collapse of her marriage.