Carnarvon, Fiona

Summary: Using copious materials--including diaries and scrapbooks--from the castle's archives, the current Countess of Carnarvon tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful and spirited American woman who married Lady Almina's son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon, while paying particular attention to the staff who offer the Castle continuity between generations.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARNARVON, CATHERINE WENDELL CAR

Carnarvon, Fiona

Summary: Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the Real Downton Abbey, a transporting companion piece to the New York Times bestseller Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey, tells the story of Catherine Wendell, the beautiful and spirited American who married Lady Almina's son, the man who would become the 6th Earl of Carnarvon.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 941.082 CAR

Ostler, Catherine

Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OST

Weir, Alison

Summary: A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEI

Muir, Robin

Summary: Four monarchs (crowned and uncrowned); one abdication; one royal investiture; a jewel box of jubilees and many, many royal marriages.... British Vogue has borne witness to a century of royal history. Its first star photographer, Cecil Beaton, was entranced by the House of Windsor and the admiration was mutual. A younger star photographer, Antony Armstrong Jones, left Vogue to marry the Queen's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.082 MUI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUI

Bailey, Catherine

Summary: " For fans of Downton Abbey: the enthralling true story of family secrets and aristocratic intrigue in the days before WWI. After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 BAI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars Bailey

Morton, Andrew

Summary: Before she was the woman who enticed a king from his throne, Bessie Wallis Warfield was a prudish girl from Baltimore. Morton shows how she transformed from a hard-nosed gold-digger to charming chatelaine, taking us through Wallis's romantic adventures in Washington, China, and London. "Before she became known as the woman who enticed a king from his throne and birthright, Bessie Wallis...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINDSOR, WALLIS WARFIELD MOR

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WINDSOR MOR

Morton, Andrew

Summary: Provides an inside look at Prince William and Kate Middleton, delving into their backgrounds, their meeting as students at the University of St Andrews, the ups and downs of their relationship, their engagement, and their wedding.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAM & CATHERINE MOR

Carnarvon, Fiona

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2012

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 942.271 CARNAVON, ALMINA, COUNTESS OF CARNARVON Car

Fort, Adrian.

Summary: A portrait of the social activist and first female member of Parliament elected to the House of Commons includes coverage of her American ancestry, her determination to use her influence to introduce American ideas into British politics and her relationships with such figures as Winston Churchill, FDR and J. M. Barrie.

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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin'S Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ASTOR, NANCY FOR

Weir, Alison

Summary: From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Lady Mary Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England, who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the Tudor succession after the death of Elizabeth I. --Publisher

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LENNOX, MARGARET DOUGLAS WEI

Wilkie, Vanessa

Summary: Born in 1559, Alice Spencer's family had made a small fortune in sheep farming and purchased a distinguished manor house called Althorp. With her sizable dowry, she married the heir to one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the country, becoming the Countess of Derby. Her husband's sudden death after he turned in a group of Catholics for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I changed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DERBY, ALICE EGERTON WIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SPENCER WIL

Sebba, Anne.

Summary: A portrait of the divorcée maligned for her marriage to the abdicated Edward VIII discusses the impoverished early life that fueled her ambitions, theories about her alleged personality disorder, and her posthumous status as a female empowerment icon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINDSOR, WALLIS, DUCHESS OF SEB

Sarah

Summary: The author documents a low period in her life and how she found strength in her struggles with adversity and eventually regained her sense of purpose for her life with the help of friends and several celebrity experts.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SARAH, DUCHESS OF YORK SAR

Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish

Summary: Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEVONSHIRE, DEBORAH VIVIEN MIT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B MITFORD MIT

Carnarvon, Fiona

Summary: Examines the life of Lady Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon, and the events in Highclere Castle during the First World War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Paperbacks 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARNARVON, ALMINA, COUNTESS OF CARNARVON Car

Castor, Helen.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.04 CAS

Bryan, J.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1979

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WINDSOR BRY

Lownie, Andrew

Summary: "The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamor and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster through the heart of the twentieth century"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOW

Sarah

Summary: "In My Story, The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: Britain's Royal Family. In a voice that is warm, strong, and always rueful, she tells of the events that catapulted "a country girl" into a fairy-tale existence, and about the dark forces - within both the Palace and herself - that made it impossible to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YORK, SARAH York

Foreman, Amanda

Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GEO

Martin, Ralph G.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1985

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHARLES & DIANA MAR