Royal lives

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Being born into the British royal family is not a choice a person can make. Being a royal is not something that can be done in isolation from the outside world, but it can make for a fascinating life. Full of insight and observation, these portraits, selected from the highly acclaimed Dictionary of National Biography by eminent historian Frank Prochaska, provide an absorbing glimpse into the lives of some of those who in their lifetimes were part of, or connected to, the most famous family in Britain.
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Elizabeth Longford on John Brown ® John Grigg on Edward VIII • Theo Aronson on Alice Keppel • F. E. G. Ponsonby on Francis KnoUys • Michael Maclagan on Sir Alan Lascelles • Kenneth Rose on Lady Patricia Ramsay - Sidney Lee on Queen Victoria • John Gore on Clive Wigram - Philip Ziegler on the Duchess of Windsor (Wa lis Simpson)
Also available from Oxford University Press: Brief Lives, Colin Matthew Stage and Screen... Tovább

Fülszöveg

portraits ^-past royals b^ those in th& kyww
Being born into the British royal family is not a choice a person can make. Being a royal is not something that can be done in isolation from the outside world, but it can make for a fascinating life. Full of insight and observation, these portraits, selected from the highly acclaimed Dictionary of National Biography by eminent historian Frank Prochaska, provide an absorbing glimpse into the lives of some of those who in their lifetimes were part of, or connected to, the most famous family in Britain.
Entries inciuci&
Elizabeth Longford on John Brown ® John Grigg on Edward VIII • Theo Aronson on Alice Keppel • F. E. G. Ponsonby on Francis KnoUys • Michael Maclagan on Sir Alan Lascelles • Kenneth Rose on Lady Patricia Ramsay - Sidney Lee on Queen Victoria • John Gore on Clive Wigram - Philip Ziegler on the Duchess of Windsor (Wa lis Simpson)
Also available from Oxford University Press: Brief Lives, Colin Matthew Stage and Screen Lives, Michael Billington Literary Lives, John Sutherland Political Lives, Hugo Young Secret Lives, M. R. D. Foot Musical Lives, Nicholas Kenyon Military Lives, Hew Strachan
'immensely enjoyable' Plays International (reviewing Stage and Screen Lives)
'The most sustained browsing among the year's reference books.' The Times (reviewing Brief Lives)
Cover photgraphs: King George V of England, Queen Victoria, Earl Mountbatten © Bettmann/CORBIS Vissza