Biography & Autobiography : Royalty

Looks at the king and his beliefs, domestic problems, and foreign policy. more...

Price: $17.95

From the bestselling author of Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot and Madonna: An Intimate Biography comes the groundbreaking biography of the royal family of Monaco, full of triumphs and tragedies, romance and heartbreak. Grace Kelly was swept away when the handsome Prince Rainier, a man she barely knew, asked for her hand in marriage. After a series of relationships with married co-stars, she was exhausted by the show-business lifestyle. If she married Rainier, she would be more than just a movie star, she would be Her Serene Royal Highness Princess Grace. more...

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The tragic story of Japan’s Crown Princess. It’s the fantasy of many young women—marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that’s not how it turned out for Masako Owada. A thoroughly modern woman in collision with an ancient system, Masako is the brilliant Harvard- and Oxford-educated woman who, in 1993, sacrificed her career as a diplomat to marry Crown Prince Naruhito. Stealing a fascinating look behind the “Chrysanthemum Curtain” into the arcane world of the Japanese royal family, Princess Masako details how the princess is subjected to the endless superstitious rites of the Royal Household Agency in the hope that she will produce a male heir and prevent the world’s oldest royal dynasty from dying out. Some thought the princess would be a breath of fresh air in the musty corridors of this twenty-six-hundred-year-old monarchy, but thirteen years later, now at age forty-two, the princess is a tragic figure whose struggles with depression have made international headlines. Ben Hills’s fascinating portrait of Masako and the Chrysanthemum Throne draws on research in Tokyo and rural Japan, Oxford, and Harvard and from more than sixty interviews with Japanese, American, English, and Australian sources—Masako’s and Naruhito’s friends, teachers, and former colleagues—many of whom have never spoken publicly before, shedding light on the royal family’s darkest secrets, secrets that can never be openly discussed in Japan because of the reverence in which the Emperor and his family are held. And it poses some questions that few in Japan would dare to ask—questions about the role of the emperor, the place of women, attitudes toward mental health and IVF, and the power of the bureaucracy. But most of all, this is a story about a love affair that went tragically wrong. more...

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This book covers all aspects of the Queen's official and private life, giving details on her children and friends, her personal interests, the events that marked her era, and the Prime Ministers and various other persons whose lives were affected by their relationship with the Queen. more...

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Janice J. Gabbert portrays the eventful life of this enigmatic king in a lively and engaging manner. Her aim is to trace the political career of a man about whose life almost no official records survive. more...

Price: $120.00