Publication date: 2000-07-03
Price: £19.99
Review The Queen and Di / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Ingrid Seward has been watching and writing about the royals since her appointment as editor of Majesty magazine in 1983. Her previous publications have covered most of the significant members of the royal family, from Prince Edward to her celebration of the Queen Mother in The Last Great Edwardian Lady. In The Queen and Di Seward claims to offer a sensitive account of the relationship between the Queen and Diana from the latter's arrival at Balmoral in the early 1980s as a guest of Prince Charles, to her untimely death in 1997. In fact the book is a rather elegant piece of extended gossip on Diana and her fraught relations with all the Windsors, which spills the beans on everything from the sexual indiscretions of virtually the entire family, to the Queen's consumption of "far more Martinis than was advisable" following Diana's death. The Queen and Di is also a rather misleading title for a book that is in fact a subtle denigration of Diana and a defence of the Queen and the workings of Diana's most hated institution, the Palace. Seward is at pains to stress that the Queen "had tried to accommodate Diana within it-bending its rules, excusing her indiscretions, making allowances for her illness, overlooking her outbursts, taking note of her grievances, ignoring the way she tried to claim centre stage and ordering her staff to treat her with respect and courtesy at all times. " There are some extreme claims-including the diagnosis of Diana's "Borderline Personality Disorder"-and moments of surreal hilarity, such as the picture of Diana running through the Palace chanting "I've got Brenda's rocks" on the eve of her wedding, after being presented with Queen Mary's jewels by the Queen. The Queen and Di is an unwitting portrait of a household in terminal decline, and a young woman who accidentally accelerated its slide. -Jerry Brotton.
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2000-11-23
Dewey code: 942.0620922
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.96
Review The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II / Phoenix:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1999-01
Dewey code: 941.085092
Price: £20.16
Review The Day Diana Died (Thorndike Core) / G. K. Hall & Company:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1993-04-01
RRP: £9.00
Price: £6.20
Review The Image of the King: Charles I and Charles II / Pimlico:
Publication date: 1995-09
Price: £25.00
Review Queen Victoria in Switzerland / Robert Hale Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-05-30
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.83
Review Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth - The Wiles of a Virgin Queen (English Heritage) / English Heritage:
Publication date: 2006-06-08
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £26.95
Price: £18.59
Review Memoirs Of The Court Of Queen Elizabeth V2 / Kessinger Publishing Co:
Publication date: 2006-05-12
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £47.99
Price: £47.99
Review Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, Volume 2 / Indypublish.com:
Edition: 2 Reprint
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 920
Price: £11.43
Review The Queen's Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I / Owl Books (NY):
Authors
- Ann A. Wilcock
- Beryl Steeden
RRP: £5.00
Price: £5.00
Review Elizabeth Casson OBE MD DPM 1881-1945: Founder of the First School of Occupational Therapy in the UK, Dorset House, Bristol, 1st January 1930 / College of Occupational Therapists:
Publication date: 1997-10
Dewey code: 941.00922
RRP: £2.99
Price: £0.01
Review Kings and Queens: 1399-1603 Bk. 2 (Snapping Turtle Guides: Millennium) / ticktock Media Ltd:
Publication date: 2007-07-25
RRP: £36.95
Price: £24.99
Review Memoirs Of The Court Of Queen Elizabeth V2 / Kessinger Publishing Co:
Publication date: 2001-12-10
Dewey code: 920
Review Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV / Carroll & Graf Publishers:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1989-05-25
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £13.99
Price: £36.95
Review Henry VIII and the English Nobility / WileyBlackwell:
Publication date: 2004-11
Dewey code: 942.055092
RRP: £22.36
Price: £19.75
Review Elizabeth I: Queen of Englands Golden Age (Rulers, Scholars, and Artists of Renaissance Europe) / Rosen Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2003-07
Dewey code: 942.0520922
Price: £20.14
Review Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII / HarperCollins Publishers:David Starkey's massive Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII follows on the huge commercial success of Elizabeth. Like its predecessor, Starkey's latest book mixes its author's scholarly erudition with a mischievous eye for a contemporary comparison or salacious soundbite. Starkey's topic is, as he admits from the outset, "one of the world's great stories"-the lives, and deaths, of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The story has been told before, but as Starkey points out, it has been wrapped in the romantic myth of 19th-century historiography. Starkey's virtue lies in his return to the archives to unearth new evidence for his story of Henry's wives. The result is a weighty blockbuster that will annoy the purists but delight the popular reader. Henry is portrayed as a fairytale prince gradually transformed into a "prematurely aged and bloated monster". Starkey concludes that "like us, he expected marriage to make him happy", but this simple desire had increasingly disastrous consequences. Henry worked his way through a series of wives from Catherine of Aragon to Catherine Parr who, according to Starkey, encompass "the full range of female stereotypes: the Saint, the Schemer, the Doormat, the Dim Fat Girl, the Sexy Teenager, and the Bluestocking". While this tends to flatten out the complexity of many of Henry's wives, there is plenty on the cataclysmic impact of the Reformation, new evidence on Henry's first wife's marriage to his brother, and a reconsideration of Henry's final wife, Catherine Parr, as "the first Queen of the Age of Print", to keep even the most sceptical reader happy. [+]-Jerry Brotton.
Edition: Revised edition
Publication date: 2002-04-02
Dewey code: 941.084092
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.75
Review Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: A Celebration of a Life (Daily Telegraph) / Macmillan:
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2002-11-21
Dewey code: 920
Price: £7.99
Review Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV / Carroll & Graf Publishing:
Publication date: 1990-09-27
RRP: £20.00
Price: £15.00
Review King Edward VIII: The Official Biography / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:
Edition: Revised
Publication date: 2000-02-22
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01
Review Elizabeth Regina / Sutton Publishing Ltd:
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