Author : Deke Rivers
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1944014330
This is a story of a young Australian artist studying art at the famous French Sorbonne University in Paris, France. On dark night while out for a walk, unexpectedly he is shocked to be an actual witness to a murder in progress. What does he do? What can he do? What does fate have him do?
Author : Courtney Hargrove
Publisher : One Moment Books
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2022-10-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Shape-shifting lizards. The King of England drowning his brother in a vat of wine. A plot by Prince Philip to kill Princess Diana. Vampires among the senior royals. Those are only some of the conspiracy theories swirling around the British royal family throughout history. But the thing about conspiracy theories is, sometimes they turn out to be true. On a more serious—and current—note, conspiracy theories are at a fever pitch about what’s happening with Duchess Meghan, Prince Harry and their troubles with the British royal family—and how it all connects to what happened in the 1980s and '90s with Princess Diana. (Please note before buying: This is not a book for diehard monarchists. This book pulls no punches in relation to the institution of the British royal family). Princess Diana was the People’s Princess, a beloved figure of empathy, service, beauty and glamour. She died tragically too young in a horrific car crash in Paris in 1997. To this day, conspiracy theories about what led up to her death from inside the British royal family and how the crash happened are still running rampant. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has also chosen a life of service and giving back. She, too, has spoken of upsetting and dangerous things that have happened to her while working inside the British monarchy—a fire in her son Archie’s nursery, an injured dog, and courtiers allegedly holding American citizen Meghan’s passport where she couldn’t easily access it, to name a few examples. Conspiracy theories abound about what’s happening now with Meghan, Prince Harry and their family connects to what happened then with Princess Di. Which theories hold water? Which ones are so ridiculous as to be laughable? Regardless of which conspiracies have the most buzz or credibility, we’ve seen that some of them will never die. And the monarchy continues its reign unimpinged, living in part off of British taxpayers. Will anything stop them?
Author : Alfred de Marigny
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,62 MB
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1939430186
In July 1943 the scorched and bloody body of multi-millionaire businessman, Sir Harry Oakes, was found in a partly burned bed in his home in the Bahamas. He had died of wounds to the head caused by a weapon never found or clearly identified. Four small, identical holes in a pattern almost square had penetrated the mastoid bone above his left ear. Within forty-eight hours, after the most cursory of investigations, Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny, was arrested and charged with the murder. The trial lasted thirty-two days. Once it was over, even though de Marigny was acquitted, his life lay in ruins. The authorities in Nassau had advised all British and friendly territories that de Marigny was to be regarded as a murderer at large, and it was four years before he could get a visa to enter the United States, where he finally made his home. Now, for the first time, de Marigny tells his own story, revealing what really happened in the Bahamas in July 1943 and in the months that followed. Even as war engulfed the globe, Nassau was a magnet for society's rich and spoiled, presided over by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. It is against this extraordinary background of wealth and privilege that the story unfolds, a complex tale of business intrigue, broken promises and acts of betrayal; of currency smuggling and conduct close to treason, and of one man's untiring efforts to clear his name.
Author : Richard Sotnick
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780955712500
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the Duchy of Coburg, ruled by the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield (later Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) family, was a small, impoverished German fiefdom with no political influence, and little prospect of improving its lot. Less than fifty years later, the family had transformed its position. Their finances were healthy and they held, or were closely related to, many of the crowns of Europe. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the genes of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family ran in no fewer than thirteen royal families. Just how did they achieve this astonishing turnaround? Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert, and the subsequent marriages of their many, highly eligible, offspring, is well known. But Richard Sotnick gives a new twist to the story by concentrating on the earlier, less well-documented period, when the most astute of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family - Leopold, Prince Albert's uncle and subsequently King of the Belgians, and his mother, the Dowager Duchess Augusta - worked behind the scenes. Richard Sotnick draws on contemporary family documents, most in the original German and only made available to the public since the reunification of Germany. He tells of Prince Albert's mother, the tragic Luise, whose scandalous divorce resulted in her being exiled for life and banished from her sons. And he explores the rumours around Albert's paternity, proposing three plausible candidates for his fatherhood.
Author : Ian Mortimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1441148582
In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible later life in Italy, the weakness of the Lancastrian claim to the throne in 1399 and the origins of the idea of the royal pretender. Central to this book is his ground-breaking approach to medieval evidence. He explains how an information-based method allows a more certain reading of a series of texts. He criticises existing modes of arriving at consensus and outlines a process of historical analysis that ultimately leads to questioning historical doubts as well as historical facts, with profound implications for what we can say about the past with certainty. This is an important work from one of the most original and popular medieval historians writing today.
Author : Giorgio A. Pinton
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 940120912X
In September of 1701, events transpired in Naples that, through frequent retellings, became popularly known as “the conspiracy of the Prince of Macchia.” Rapidly gaining fame, this apparently anonymous narrative was soon incorporated by different historians in their history of the transition years between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But who was the initial bard or narrator, the town clerk or citizen who first gave testimony of this event by creating a Latin text of the story of the Prince of Macchia? Giambattista Vico was not among the claimants to the authorship of the fabulous story that changed the future of the Kingdom of Naples. Nevertheless, four scholars across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were themselves convinced, and managed to convince the intellectual world as well, that Vico, then a young teacher of rhetoric at the University of Naples, was indeed the source of this original Latin narration of this oft retold Neapolitan history. This book provides the original Latin text with a parallel translation, as well as historical context and analysis of both the text’s authorship history and the account itself.
Author : SJ Parris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1643135457
A gripping murder mystery set in 16th-century France, as Giordano Bruno fights against multiple factions manipulating the succession of King Henry III. December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths. Each victim is connected to a larger plot to manipulate the royal succession; what they knew and who killed them is a mystery to be solved. Meanwhile, Bruno makes an uneasy alliance with Charles Paget, a key figure in the community of English Catholics who tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. When Bruno is implicated in the death of Leonie, a member of the Queen Mother's "Flying Squadron," he is forced to call on Paget and his connections for help—and finds that it comes with a price, involving an old enemy.
Author : Thom Burnett
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 9781843403814
Conspiracies are everywhere. they are the lifeblood of politics, business and our daily lives. this truly international and all-embracing encyclopedia explains the details of the world's major popular conspiracies, listing them chronologically under subject matter and cross-referencing them continually (because so many conspiracy theories interact on some level). Conspiracies are often international in their sweep and their impact. the brutal stabbing of Julius Caesar (the conspiracy which has defined political assassinations ever since) plunged the Roman Empire into civil war, which then engulfed much of the known western world. More recently the Cambridge spies (Philby, Blunt, MacLean and Burgess) helped Russia throughout WWII and then re-defined the Cold War afterwards, Philby's defection casting a 30-year shadow over CIA/Anglo-American relations. though conspiracies define our everyday lives, there is no body of serious academic research to understand their role, nature or defining characteristics. Most historians prefer to adhere to the cock-up theory of history, in which everything happens by accident or incompetence. Although this view is favoured by academics and historians, it is rejected by a large part of the general public who prefer the evidence of their own lives. However they consume their media, what they see is a mesh of conspiracies that define the texture of their everyday lives, often for the worst. Most people believe that there is a grain of truth in most theories about conspiracies. this book is for them.
Author : Justin Somper
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0316253960
The second book in Justin Somper's Allies & Assassins series delivers another twisted tale of high-stakes betrayal and political machinations set amid a lush medieval background. The newly crowned Prince Jared, ruler of All Archenfield, has inherited a kingdom in crisis. The murder of his older brother has revealed a traitorous plot in his court, calling into question who, if anyone, Jared can trust as he ascends the throne. Now the realm is on the brink of invasion from the brutal princes of Paddenburg and Jared must travel to neighboring kingdoms in search of allies to defend his throne. Little does he know that an even more dangerous plot is hatching in the Archenfield court--one that threatens to remove Jared from power. One put in motion by the very people he left in charge.
Author : Fred Butler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,5 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category :
ISBN : 9780578801964
An introductory book that engages the arguments and apologetics of King James Onlyists. The author was a King James Onlyists for ten years and his book is written from out of his experience. He presents 6 KJV only arguments, and then explains the problems with them.
