The Diary of a Lady-in-waiting
Author : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
ISBN :
Author : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Publisher :
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 34,62 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
ISBN :
Author : Anne Glenconner
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306846357
Discover untold secrets with this extraordinary memoir of drama and tragedy by Anne Glenconner—a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Anne Glenconner has been at the center of the royal circle from childhood, when she met and befriended the future Queen Elizabeth II and her sister, the Princess Margaret. Though the firstborn child of the 5th Earl of Leicester, who controlled one of the largest estates in England, as a daughter she was deemed "the greatest disappointment" and unable to inherit. Since then she has needed all her resilience to survive court life with her sense of humor intact. A unique witness to landmark moments in royal history, Maid of Honor at Queen Elizabeth's coronation, and a lady in waiting to Princess Margaret until her death in 2002, Anne's life has encompassed extraordinary drama and tragedy. In Lady in Waiting, she will share many intimate royal stories from her time as Princess Margaret's closest confidante as well as her own battle for survival: her broken-off first engagement on the basis of her "mad blood"; her 54-year marriage to the volatile, unfaithful Colin Tennant, Lord Glenconner, who left his fortune to a former servant; the death in adulthood of two of her sons; a third son she nursed back from a six-month coma following a horrific motorcycle accident. Through it all, Anne has carried on, traveling the world with the royal family, including visiting the White House, and developing the Caribbean island of Mustique as a safe harbor for the rich and famous-hosting Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Raquel Welch, and many other politicians, aristocrats, and celebrities. With unprecedented insight into the royal family, Lady in Waiting is a witty, candid, dramatic, at times heart-breaking personal story capturing life in a golden cage for a woman with no inheritance. New York Times Bestseller USA Today Bestseller The Sunday Times Bestseller The Globe and Mail Bestseller ABA Indie Bestseller The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Author : Lady Victoria Hervey
Publisher : Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1786517574
Lady Frederica Felton, or Freddie to her friends, is poised to return to Mapleton Manor boarding school for Sixth Form. After a summer at home in Monaco, Freddie is more than ready to see her friends again...and she'll find herself in numerous escapades along the way, collecting wristbands as she goes. Midnight feasts, great escapes and ghost stories—life at Mapleton Manor is anything but boring, especially for someone like Freddie. Whilst fiercely loyal and fun loving, she is the go-to girl for contraband and fashion advice. Freddie is the girl to know. But the next couple of years won't all be fun and games. As well as exam pressure there are rotten teachers to contend with, and a friend Freddie isn't so sure has her best interests at heart... There are difficult choices to be made. First love to experience. Heartbreak to be had. But with her friends at her side and her fearless nature, will Freddie take her world by storm?
Author : Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady, 1775-1861
ISBN :
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Children's stories, American
ISBN : 9780590684842
In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.
Author : Charles Woodcock-Savage
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1906
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Debby Jones
Publisher : Treasure House
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781560438489
Christian principles and guidelines for women who are waiting for the right man and for married women who have the right man.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2008-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781427066787
Author : Robin Maxwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1628724544
Now available again, the first book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet: "Wonderfully juicy . . . Maxwell brings all of bloody Tudor England vividly to life” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One was queen for a thousand days; one for over forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. Yet until the discovery of the secret diary, Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth I, had never really met. Anne was the second of Henry's six wives, doomed to be beloved, betrayed, and beheaded. When Henry fell madly in love with her upon her return from an education at the lascivious French court, he was already a married man. While his passion for Anne was great enough to rock the foundation of England and of all Christendom, in the end he forsook her for another love, schemed against her, and ultimately had her sentenced to death. But unbeknownst to the king, Anne had kept a diary. At the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign, it is pressed into her hands. In reading it, the young queen discovers a great deal about her much-maligned mother: Anne's fierce determination, her hard-won knowledge about being a woman in a world ruled by despotic men, and her deep-seated love for the infant daughter taken from her shortly after her birth. In the journal's pages, Elizabeth finds an echo of her own dramatic life as a passionate young woman at the center of England's powerful male establishment, and with the knowledge gained from them, makes a resolution that will change the course of history.
Author : Lady Victoria Hervey
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781786518590
Lady Frederica Felton, or Freddie to her friends, is poised to return to Mapleton Manor boarding school for Sixth Form. After a summer at home in Monaco, Freddie is more than ready to see her friends again...and she'll find herself in numerous escapades along the way, collecting wristbands as she goes. Midnight feasts, great escapes and ghost stories-life at Mapleton Manor is anything but boring, especially for someone like Freddie. Whilst fiercely loyal and fun loving, she is the go-to girl for contraband and fashion advice. Freddie is the girl to know. But the next couple of years won't all be fun and games. As well as exam pressure there are rotten teachers to contend with, and a friend Freddie isn't so sure has her best interests at heart... There are difficult choices to be made. First love to experience. Heartbreak to be had. But with her friends at her side and her fearless nature, will Freddie take her world by storm?