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The Queen's handbag
When a swan steals the Queen's handbag, she chases it all around the sights Great Britain, including Stonehenge, the Giants Causeway, and Edinburgh Castle, until the swan and the handbag end up at the finish line of the London Marathon.
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Just Flesh and Blood
Just Flesh and Blood is the highly anticipated conclusion in the popular trilogy about Queen Elizabeth I.'A terrible dread took hold in my belly.The only bed left to me was my deathbed and I was not ready for that - not yet.No, not yet.' Although she lies unmoving on a pile of cushions, Elizabeth is a survivor.
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The last Tudor
\"The latest novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory features one of the most famous girls in history, Lady Jane Grey, and her two sisters, each of whom dared to defy her queen. Seventeen-year-old Jane Grey was queen of England for nine days. Her father and his allies crowned her instead of the dead king's half-sister Mary Tudor, who quickly mustered an army, claimed her throne, and locked Jane in the Tower of London. When Jane refused to betray her Protestant faith, Mary sent her to the executioner's block, where Jane transformed her father's greedy power-grab into tragic martyrdom. \"Learn you to die,\" was the advice Jane wrote to her younger sister Katherine, who has no intention of dying. She intends to enjoy her beauty and her youth and fall in love. But she is heir to the insecure and infertile Queen Mary and then to her sister Queen Elizabeth, who will never allow Katherine to marry and produce a Tudor son. When Katherine's pregnancy betrays her secret marriage she faces imprisonment in the Tower, only yards from her sister's scaffold. \"Farewell, my sister,\" writes Katherine to the youngest Grey sister, Mary. A beautiful dwarf, disregarded by the court, Mary keeps family secrets, especially her own, while avoiding Elizabeth's suspicious glare. After seeing her sisters defy the queen, Mary is acutely aware of her own danger, but determined to command her own life. What will happen when the last Tudor defies her ruthless and unforgiving cousin Queen Elizabeth?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Elizabeth I
Daughter of the tyrannical Henry VIII and sister of the embittered Queen Mary, Elizabeth Idid well to survive her childhood. Clever, learned and skilled indiplomacy, as Queen she presided over a golden age of literature,exploration and discovery.
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Anne Boleyn, a king's obsession : a novel
Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives. But her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-- he is a married man who has already conducted an affair with her sister, Mary. This rejection only intensifies Henry's pursuit, tempting Anne even as it proves to be her undoing.
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The Prince and the Penny Chartist
This paper interrogates how Reynolds's Newspaper covered the Great Exhibition in the first year of its run. By harnessing his newspaper's critique of the exhibition, George W. M. Reynolds promoted himself as an enemy to the aristocracy and a friend to his desired reading public of working people. Throughout 1851, the newspaper articulated a counter-narrative to the exhibition's rhetoric of class unity: first, by drawing on melodramatic Old Corruption narratives through its negative representation of Prince Albert, and second, by positioning Reynolds's as an advocate for workmen on the Crystal Palace. This coverage illustrates Reynolds's complex but lucrative position at the intersection of popular culture and radical politics.
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Susan
\"Susan--the corgi presented to Princess Elizabeth on her eighteenth birthday--reveals secrets of life in Buckingham Palace\"-- Provided by publisher. Includes historical notes and information about the breed.
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The Queen and the Heretic
The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman from Lincolnshire. But they were joined together in their love for the new learning - and their adherence to Protestantism threatened both their lives. Both women wrote about their faith, and their writings are still with us. Powerful men at court sought to bring Catherine down, and used Anne Askew's notoriety as a weapon in that battle. Queen Catherine Parr survived, while Anne Askew, the only woman to be racked, was burned to death. This book explores their lives, and the way of life for women from various social strata in Tudor England.
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