Подлинная история, которая легла в основу знаменитого сериала "Аббатство Даунтон"!
Трогательная история удивительной жизни женщины, которая хотела делать людям добро и дл...
Henry IV (1399–1413), the son of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, seized the English throne at the age of thirty-two from his cousin Richard II and held it until his deat...
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles—just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first o...
This is the story of what Rudyard Kipling called ‘the savage wars of peace’. Throughout Queen Victoria’s long reign there was not a single year in which, somewhere in the ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breed...
Last year, the telly-watching public was gripped by "Downton Abbey" - the most successful British period drama in years and the number - one most-watched new drama program...
It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love - his `official' mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick and Alice Keppel. In their diff...
An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force from a stunning new history write...
Вот уже более трехсот лет династия Виндзоров восседает на троне Великобритании. Наряду со славными традициями, в истории этой монархии немало тайн или событий, которые как...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so t...
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father died when she was four and as Matthew Dennison relates Victoria came to depend on her youn...
The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any age. Today, her growing reputation as a composer of religious music has overshadowe...
La presente obra, más que un intento de reconstrucción histórica, pretende germinar la reflexión a través de seis ensayos escogidos de grandes intelectuales peruanos, quie...
Der Autor Konrad Steinhoefel schildert im Band "König Albert von Sachsen" ein Lebensbild von Albert von Sachsen. Am 29. Oktober 1873 wurde Albert aus dem Haus der albertin...
