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Provides photographs, illustrations, and descriptions of the union of royal couples from England, Europe, India, and the Middle East.
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 412; Original Published by: Funk and Wagnalls co. in 1915 in 303 pages; Subjects: Royal houses; Marriages of royalty and nobility; Europe; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; History / Europe / General; History / Europe / Great Britain;
Provides complete coverage of the wedding with details on the early lives of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, their romance, and a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations, the wedding itself, and the celebrations afterwards.
With a new royal baby we witness fundamental changes in the succession laws, but then rules governing the royal weddings and the succession to the throne have always been shifting. So what is marriage and who decides? What special rules govern royal marriage and when did they come into force? How have royal marriages affected history? Were the 'Princes in the Tower' illegitimate? Did Henry VIII really have six wives? Was Queen Victoria 'Mrs Brown'? how were royal consorts chosen in the past? Did some use witchcraft to win the Crown? History has handled debateable royal marriages in various ways, but had the same rules been applied consistently, the order of succession would have been completely different. Here, all controversial English and British royal marriages are reassessed together for the first time to explore how different cases can shed light on one another. Surveying the whole phenomenon of disputed royal marriage, the author offer some intriguing new evidence, while highlighting common features and points of contrast.
Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British Royal Family. The first part of this intriguing book looks at the scandal that erupted in Regency London, just months after the Battle of Waterloo, when the widowed Lord Charles Bentinck eloped with the Duke of WellingtonÕs married niece. A messy divorce and a swift marriage followed, complicated by an unseemly tug-of-war over Lord CharlesÕ infant daughter from his first union. Over two decades later and while at Oxford University, Lord CharlesÕ eldest son, known to his family as Ch...
David Stevenson provides the first account in English of the marriage of James VI and Anne of Denmark together with an English translation of a contemporary Danish account.
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The second tie-in to ITV drama Victoria unveils the complex, passionate relationship of Victoria and Albert.
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