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Power and Glory - Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty: Alexander Larman Power and Glory - Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
Alexander Larman
R744 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R138 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

All This I Promise: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty will be the new book from Alexander Larman, author of The Crown in Crisis and The Windsors at War, and the conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It will begin with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and will end with the Coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. In between, it will depict a monarchy - and a country - struggling to cope with the aftermath of World War Two, in an era where old certainties have been replaced by the rise of a new, uncertain world, and where love, tragedy and modernity battle for supremacy. All This I Promise will use the same previously unseen and rare sources as Larman's previous books, including the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, the Churchill College Archives and the Balliol Archives, as well as the Clement Attlee archives at the Bodleian in Oxford and the Parliamentary Archives in London. New material will include extensive unpublished correspondence between major members of the Royal Family including George VI, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Windsor, the Prime Ministers Clement Attlee and Winston Churchill, and previously unseen diaries and memoranda from courtiers, personal secretaries and leading politicians, exploring everything from the King's declining health to the (often negative) reactions to Elizabeth's marriage to Prince Philip and Coronation. All This I Promise will offer the same intricately researched and incisively written account of Britain's most famous family as Larman's previous books, but with a panoramic and epic international scale. It will explore everything from the end of British rule in India to the foundation of the United Nations, and the crucial role that monarchy played in the ever-shifting era - as well, naturally, as the way in which the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attempted to return to relevance, whatever the cost might be to the wider Royal Family.

The Windsors at War - The Nazi Threat to the Crown: Alexander Larman The Windsors at War - The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Alexander Larman
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated the throne, leaving his unprepared and terrified brother Bertie to become George VI. Meanwhile, as the now-Duke of Windsor awaited the decree that would allow him to marry his mistress Wallis Simpson, he took an increasing interest in the expansionist plans of the Führer of Germany. The Windsors at War tells the story of the turbulent and seismic decade in between 1937 and 1947, including the bombing of Buckingham Palace in May 1940, the Duke of Windsor's ill-advised visit to Germany in October 1937 and the death of the Duke of Kent in a plane crash in August 1942. It answers a simple question: how did this squabbling, dysfunctional family manage to put their differences aside and unite to help win the greatest conflict of their lifetimes?

Power and Glory - Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty: Alexander Larman Power and Glory - Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
Alexander Larman
R789 R661 Discovery Miles 6 610 Save R128 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Crown in Crisis - Countdown to the Abdication (Paperback): Alexander Larman The Crown in Crisis - Countdown to the Abdication (Paperback)
Alexander Larman
R275 R226 Discovery Miles 2 260 Save R49 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the Establishment, who were desperate to avoid an international embarrassment at a time when war seemed imminent. An influential coalition formed against him, including the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the editor of The Times. Edward seemed fated to give up Wallis and remain a reluctant ruler, or to abdicate his throne. Yet he had his own supporters, too, including Winston Churchill, the Machiavellian newspaper proprietor Lord Beaverbrook and his brilliant adviser Walter Monckton. They offered him the chance to remain on the throne and keep Wallis. But was the price they asked too high? Using previously unpublished and rare archival material, and new interviews with those who knew Edward and Wallis, THE CROWN IN CRISIS is the conclusive exploration of how an unthinkable and unprecedented event tore the country apart. This seismic event has been written about before but never with the ticking-clock suspense and pace of the thriller that it undoubtedly was for all of its participants. Painstakingly researched, incisively written and entirely fresh in its approach, THE CROWN IN CRISIS brings the events of that time to thrilling life, and in the process will appeal to an entirely new audience.

Byron's Women (Paperback): Alexander Larman Byron's Women (Paperback)
Alexander Larman 1
R306 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

One was the mother who bore him; three were women who adored him; one was the sister he slept with; one was his abused and sodomized wife; one was his legitimate daughter; one was the fruit of his incest; another was his friend Shelley's wife, who avoided his bed and invented science fiction instead. Nine women; one poet named George Gordon, Lord Byron - mad, bad and very very dangerous to know. The most flamboyant of the Romantics, he wrote literary bestsellers, he was a satirist of genius, he embodied the Romantic love of liberty (the Greeks revere him as a national hero), he was the prototype of the modern celebrity - and he treated women (and these women in particular) abominably. In BYRON AND HIS WOMAN, Alex Larman tells their extraordinary, moving and often shocking stories. In so doing, he creates a scurrilous 'anti-biography' of one of England's greatest poets, whose life is views - to deeply unflattering effect - through the prism of the nine damaged woman's lives.

Restoration - 1666: A Year in Britain (Hardcover): Alexander Larman Restoration - 1666: A Year in Britain (Hardcover)
Alexander Larman 1
R603 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R99 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell's Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a fascinating portrait of a country in the throes of social, political and cultural change following the convulsions of the Interregnum. Exploring every level of English society, from innkeepers and upholsterers to lawyers and courtiers, and examining themes as diverse as marriage, sexuality and religion, he creates a pointilliste and multi-faceted portrait of Restoration England. By looking at the year 1666 through the eyes of the people of the time, by revealing what they ate and drank, how they loved, lived and died and how they interacted, Alex Larman brings alive the England of 300 years ago as you have never seen it before: exciting, tangible, and fully comprehensible.

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