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Summary: "The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duchess of Sussex are global style icons. With their every fashion choice chronicled and celebrated, Kate and Meghan purposefully select clothes to send messages about their values, interests, and priorities. Their thoughtful sartorial strategies follow the legacies of Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales, two towering figures who have used their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.085 HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 941.085092 HOLSmith, Sally Bedell
Summary: "When the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne in 1936, his shy, uncertain, unprepared younger brother became King. Sally Bedell Smith was granted by Queen Elizabeth II special access to the letters and diaries of George VI and Elizabeth, to tell the story of how their love, devotion, and strong marriage led George VI to overcome insecurities and difficulty speaking and to become an exceptional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SMIMuir, 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 MUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.082 MUIBrandreth, Gyles Daubeney
Summary: This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Coronet 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PHILIP, PRINCE BRAHardman, Robert
Summary: "On today's world stage, there is one leader who stands apart from the rest. Queen Elizabeth II has seen more of the planet and its people than any other head of state and has engaged with the world like no other monarch in modern history. Since her coronation, she has visited over 130 countries across the ever-changing globe, acting as diplomat, stateswoman, pioneer, and peace-broker. She has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH HARQuattlebaum, Mary
Summary: "Explore one of the most prominent names from British royal history with this biography of Queen Elizabeth II. Kids will learn about her rise to become the current queen of the United Kingdom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2023
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Summary: Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same'.These were the heartbreaking words of a seventeen-year-old girl, Lady Jane Grey, as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Her death for high treason sent shockwaves through the Tudor world and served as a gruesome reminder to all who aspired to the Crown that the axe could fall at any...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GREY, JANE, LADY TALHardman, Robert
Summary: "A definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on the seventieth anniversary of her reign by a renowned royal biographer."--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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Summary: "A lively and poignant biography of the young princess who, at the impressionable age of eleven, found that she was now heiress to the throne" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II WILMorton, Andrew
Summary: "Renowned biographer Andrew Morton takes an in-depth look at Britain's longest reigning monarch, exploring the influence Queen Elizabeth had on both Britain and the rest of the world for much of the last century. From leading a nation struggling to restore itself after the devastation of the second World War to navigating the divisive political landscape of the present day, Queen Elizabeth was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II MORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUEEN ELIZABETH MORBaird, Julia (Julia Woodlands)
Summary: A magnificent biography of Queen Victoria by International New York Times columnist Julia Baird. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, 'Victoria: The Queen' is a stunning new portrait of the real woman behind the myth - a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 VICTORIA, QUEEN BAIRussell, Gareth
Summary: This collection of one hundred and one anecdotes about Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, features amusing and fascinating vignettes from her long life, including her coming of age during World War I and the 1936 abdication of her brother-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH RUSFraser, Antonia
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chivers 1992
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 942.052 FRAGill, Gillian.
Summary: Offers a revolutionary portrait of a queen and her prince, revealing at once both an intimate but far-from-idyllic relationship that succeeded against all odds as the strong, feisty queen and the brilliant, fragile prince worked together to build a family based on support, trust, and fidelity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks 2010
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Summary: An intimate portrait of England's longest-reigning queen, in celebration of her diamond jubilee -- and the first-ever book interview with her grandson, HRH, the Prince of Wales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II HARPhillips, Charles
Summary: Britain's early royal history brought to life with 200 contemporary and historical illustrations, maps, shields and comprehensive genealogical tables.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 941.0099 PHIWeir, Alison.
Summary: Profiles the oft-married English monarch and the women that came to define him through marriage, detailing their little-known histories and personalities. "Brilliantly written and meticulously researched...Alison Weir is adept at bringing to life these historical figures." Henry VIII is perhaps England's most infamous monarch, especially when it comes to matters of the heart. He was married to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. Arnold 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELILacey, Robert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II, QUEEN LACMurphy, Victoria
Summary: Since she succeeded to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has become respected, celebrated, and beloved around the world. This stunning collection of powerful images illustrates her storied reign in all its glory. More than 300 extraordinary photographs, along with insightful commentary by the royal journalist Victoria Murphy, showcase the significant, historic, and intimate moments...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hearst Home, an imprint of Hearts Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN MURShawcross, William.
Summary: The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN SHAHibbert, Christopher
Contents: Pt. 1. 1819-1861 -- pt. 2. 1861-1901.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 VICTORIA, QUEEN HIBMarr, Andrew.
Summary: A surprising and very personal biography of a woman who may be the world's last great queen, published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of her reign.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH II MARWeir, Alison
Summary: "Spanning the years from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the dawn of a new era in 1154, when Henry II succeeded to the throne and Eleanor of Aquitaine, the first Plantagenet queen, was crowned, this ... book brings to ... life five women: Matilda of Flanders, wife of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king; Matilda of Scotland, revered as 'the common mother of all England'; Adeliza of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballentine Books 2017