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In 1863, Queen Victoria decreed that her son Edward, Prince of Wales, should marry Princess Alexandra, daughter of the obscure and unsophisticated heir to the Danish throne.
The beauty, grace and charm of Prince Christian's daughter had prevailed over the Queen's intense dislike of the Danish royal house. Even the embarrassingly difficult Bertie was persuaded to agree to the match.
Thus began the fairy-tale saga of a family that handed on its good looks, unaffectedness and democratic manners to almost every royal house of modern Europe. For, in the year that Alexandra became Princess of Wales, her brother Willie was elected King of the Hellenes; her father at last succeeded to the Danish throne; her sister Dagmar was soon to become wife of the future Tsar Alexander III of Russia; and her youngest sister Thyra later married the de jure King of Hanover.
A Family of Kings is the story of the crowned children and grandchildren of Christian IX and Queen Louise of Denmark, focusing on the half-century before the First World War. It is an intimate, domestic study of a close-knit family, their individual personalities, and the courts to which they came.
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History Of The Island Of Mull Embracing Description, Climate, Geology, Flora, Fauna, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Superstitutions, Traditions, With An Account Of Its Inhabitants, Together With A Narrative Of Iona, The Sacred Isle (Volume I)
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J. P. MacLean
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Heraldry's unfamiliar terminology discourages people from learning
more about this fascinating subject but heraldic language is
essential for the precise description of a coat of arms. This book
provides a gentle introduction explaining terms and providing basic
principles.
First full edition of a crucial source for knowledge of the period.
The eyre roll is a major source of information about medieval life,
ranging from local courts and land tenure through town customs and
the status of women to general neighbourliness. This is especially
important for Northumberland, where constant border raiding was
detrimental to the accumulation of local records. The survival of
the Northumberland Eyre Roll for 1293, recording over eleven
hundred law suits, provides a rare glimpse of the county
(togetherwith information on Lancashire, Westmorland and
Cumberland) on the eve of the outbreak of the Anglo-Scottish wars;
as only brief extracts from the roll have been published
previously, this full edition will be warmly welcomed. Thetext is
accompanied by notes and a subject index providing a full guide to
topics of special interest. CONSTANCE FRASER is a retired lecturer.
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