Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 1998-12-31
Dewey code: 941.062092
Price: £17.99
Review Montrose / Saint Martin's Press Inc.:
Publication date: 1996-07
Dewey code: 941.052092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £32.69
Review Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII / Addison Wesley:
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publication date: 1997-02
Price: £12.99
Review The ITN Book of the Queen Mother / Michael O'Mara Books:
Edition: 1st Free P
Publication date: 2002-05-20
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £18.00
Price: £3.45
Review Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II / Free Press:
Publication date: 2007-06-05
Dewey code: 941.0850922
Review After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor / Hyperion:
Publication date: 1984-05
Dewey code: 942.052
RRP: £12.07
Price: £27.80
Review Mistress Anne / Summit Books:
Publication date: 1990-05-31
Price: £6.99
Review Queen Victoria: Gender and Power / Virago Press Ltd:
Authors
- Moira Johnston
- Trevor Rees-Jones
Publication date: 2002-01
RRP: £41.95
Price: £43.88
Review The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash and the Sole Survivor: Complete & Unabridged / Soundings:"Telling my story in a book is the last thing I ever dreamed I'd be doing", writes Trevor Rees-Jones in the introduction to his autobiography, The Bodyguard's Story. Rees-Jones's life changed irrevocably on the night of Saturday, August 31, 1997, when the car he was travelling in crashed in a certain Alma tunnel in Paris. The car contained no ordinary passengers-Rees-Jones was the bodyguard of Dodi Fayed, companion of Diana, Princess of Wales. Dodi, Diana and driver Henri Paul were all killed, leaving Rees-Jones as the sole survivor, fighting for his life having suffered appalling injuries. His face was crushed beyond recognition and had to be extensively reconstructed under expert surgical care. Rees-Jones left hospital after a month, intending to continue with his life as far as possible and his work for his employer, Dodi's father, Mohamed Al Fayed. Yet his situation became increasingly fraught in the wake of the death of the Princess of Wales, one of the late 20th-century's most potent icons. As the grief-stricken Fayed tried desperately to find someone to blame for the death of his son, it was only a matter of time before Rees-Jones became embroiled in the web of recriminations and accusations. The Bodyguard's Story tells the story of the summer leading up to the fatal accident; as Rees-Jones, speaking openly for the first time, describes a world of extreme wealth, paparazzi-dodging and the increasingly volatile situation between the press, Dodi, Diana and their minders as the summer dragged on. Realising his life could never return to what it had been, Rees-Jones aims to set the record straight with his first-hand account. [+]"They'd died on my shift, and I'll live with that for the rest of my life. But I look in the mirror every day and know that I did the best I could. " -Kate Weaver.
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £9.95
Price: £8.49
Review A Celebration of Empire: Centenary Celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1837-1897 / Howell Press:
Publication date: 1998-04-09
Price: £16.99
Review Death by Fame: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria / Constable:
Authors
- Queen of Great Britain Victoria
Dewey code: 941
Price: £14.99
Review Queen Victoria's Scottish Diaries: Her Day Dreams / Lochar Publishing Ltd:
Publication date: 1992-07
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £3.27
Price: £2.95
Review Princess Diana: The Real Story : An Unauthorized Biography / Signet:
Publication date: 2008-06-12
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.77
Review Queen Victoria / Indypublish.com:
Publication date: 1990-09
Dewey code: 941.081092
RRP: £12.40
Price: £41.47
Review Queen Victoria: The Woman, the Monarchy, and the People / Pantheon Books:
Publication date: 1999-11
RRP: £9.78
Price: £19.95
Review In Her Own Words: The After Death Journal of Princess Diana / English Rose Pr:
Publication date: 1992-12
RRP: £6.53
Price: £15.43
Review Princess Diana / Publications Intl:
Publication date: 2004-04-07
Dewey code: 941.105092
Review Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart / Houghton Mifflin:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2000-05-04
Price: £7.99
Review Diana and the Rise of the House of Spencer (Diana Princess of Wales) / Coronet Books:
Authors
- Tamara L. Britton
- Paul Joseph
Dewey code: 941.085092
RRP: £5.56
Price: £13.43
Review Prince William (Young Profiles) / Abdo Pub Co:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 2000-08
Dewey code: 941.073092
RRP: £19.60
Price: £2.38
Review Georgiana Duchess of Devonshir (Thorndike Biography) / Thorndike Press:Georgiana Spencer was, in a sense, an 18th-century "It Girl". She came from one of England's richest and most landed families, and married into another. She was, beautiful, sensitive, and extravagant. Acquainted fairly young with Charles James Fox, her move from parties to Parties led her to become the intimate of ministers and princes, and she canvassed assiduously for the Whig cause, most famously in the Westminster election of 1784. By turns she was caricatured and fawned on by the press, and she provided the inspiration for Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School For Scandal. But, luckily for her biographer, she also had weaknesses that were to taint her life. As gin gripped the masses, so gambling thralled the aristocracy. By 1784 Georgiana owed "many, many, many thousands", and the creditors she acquired dogged her until her death, but the sterility of her marriage meant that she never came close to disclosing the magnitude of her debts. Amanda Foreman describes astutely the mess that was personal relationships for the aristocratic subculture (Georgiana and the Duke engaged for many years in a ménage à trois with Lady Elizabeth Fraser, who inveigled her way into his bed and her heart). She is, by her own admission, a little in love with her subject, which can lead to occasional lapses of perspective, but generally it adds zest to a narrative built on, rather than burdened by, scholarship, that is at once accessible and learned. [+]An impressive debut, in every sense. -David Vincent.
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