John Van der Kiste's book takes in the principal monarchies of Scandinavia going back to the beginning of the 19th century. He uses unpublished sources and photographs to show h...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla John Van der Kiste.
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria...
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra had six children. Of the five who reached maturity, only one, the future King George V, has received much attention from biographers. The eld...
SONS SERVANTS STATESMEN
JOHN VAN DER KISTE · ISBN 9780750938136
Julkaistu 2007 Kieli englanti nidottu
Hugh Shortland: A Victorian mystery
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781093387612
Julkaistu 2019 Kieli englanti nidottu
In April 1884 Hugh Shortland, an ambitious young lawyer and would-be entrepreneur from Devon, married Laura Dimes. Almost immediately he left her to return to a lonely existence...
James II and the First Modern Revolution
John Van der Kiste · ISBN 9781399001403
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti sidottu
In February 1685, James II succeeded his brother Charles II on the English throne. His popularity had soared and fallen during his brother's reign. During a period of less than...
Queen Victoria's Daughters-in-Law
John Van der Kiste · ISBN 9781399001458
Julkaistu 2023 Kieli englanti sidottu
Of Queen Victoria's four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the fami...
Queen Victoria’s Daughters-in-Law
John Van der Kiste · ISBN 9781399001496
Julkaistu 2026 Kieli englanti nidottu
Of Queen Victoria’s four sons, the eldest married a Danish princess, one a Russian Grand Duchess, and the other two princesses of German royal houses. The first to join the fami...
Born in 1765, third son of King George III and Queen Charlotte, Prince William, Duke of Clarence, initially had little expectation of succeeding to the British throne. A brief c...
Roy Wood: The Move, Wizzard and beyond
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781502990365
Julkaistu 2014 Kieli englanti nidottu
Prince Henry of Prussia: 1862-1929
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781507585252
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
A mere passing shadow: The tragedy of Frederick III, German Emperor
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781507873335
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
A two-act drama based around the illness and death of Frederick III, son-in-law of Queen Victoria, who reigned as German Emperor for only three months in 1888. The other charact...
The last German Empress: Empress Augusta Victoria, Consort of Emperor William II
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781511613965
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a potential bride for Prince Willi...
Princess Helena: Queen Victoria's third daughter
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781511679206
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Charlotte and Feodora: A troubled mother-daughter relationship in imperial Germany
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781514877371
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Dictionary of Royal Biographers
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781517115272
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu
Dartmoor and other places: Collected Poems, 1975-2015
John Van Der Kiste · ISBN 9781517126353
Julkaistu 2015 Kieli englanti nidottu