Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is celebrating 60 years as British Sovereign in 2012. This fully up-to-date souvenir guide captures month-by-month the excitement the majesty & the pageantry of the spectacular events that have allowed a nation to celebrate & share their admiration for their Queen in her Diamond Jubilee Year. With over 60 wonderful photographs this will be a souvenir to keep & treasure
- this special edition recalls the many key moments of Jubilee year including The Queen & Prince Philip's nationwide tour of the UK the overseas tours by other members of the Royal Family the spectacular pageant at Windsor Castle & the astonishing procession of the Royal Barge & its flotilla of several hundred small craft along the River Thames. This special souvenir guide is the essential souvenir of any extraordinary year of events for The Queen & her subjects at home & around the world.
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A stunning novel set in the Tudor court from the Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Philippa Gregory. The rivalry between Queen Mary ...

For fans of Hilary Mantel Philippa Gregory & Alison Weir Elizabeth Fremantle's first novel Queen's Gambit is a riveting account of Katherine Parr the Tudor queen who married four men & outlived three of them
- including Henry VIII. Queen's Gambit: Gripping". (Woman & Home). " Sumptuous". (Metro). "A major new voice in historical fiction". (The Bookseller). " Rich & enticing". (Stylist). " Electric". (Good Housekeeping). " Wildly entertaining". (Huffington Post). Tudor England
- A dying king. A queen in danger Widowed for the second time aged thirty-one Katherine is obliged to return to court but suspicious of the aging Henry & those who surround him she does so with reluctance. Nevertheless when she finds herself caught up in a passionate affair with the dashing & seductive Thomas Seymour she believes she might finally be able to marry for love. But her presence at court has attracted the attentions of another... Captivated by her honesty & intelligence Henry Tudor has his own plans for Katherine & no one is in the position to refuse a proposal from the king. With her charismatic lover dispatched to the continent Katherine becomes Henry's sixth wife. Passionate about religious reform & ever aware of the fates of his previous queens she must draw upon all her instincts & intellect to navigate the treachery of the court. With the Catholic faction once more in the ascendency reformers burned for heresy & those around the dying king vying for position in the new regime her survival seems unlikely
- & yet she has still not quite given up on love... Rich in atmosphere & period detail & told through the eyes of Katherine & her young maid Dot Queen's Gambit is the story of two very different women during a terrifying & turbulent time. If you loved Wolf Hall The Other Boleyn Girl or the BBC drama series The Tudors then Elizabeth Fremantle's Queen's Gambit is the book for you. Elizabeth Fremantle holds a first in English & an MA in creative Writing from Birkbeck. Queen's Gambit is her first novel. Her second Queen Jane's Shadow will be published in 2014."


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It's a busy year for the Queen
- she has lots of important events to attend. Meanwhile a little girl is wondering what knickers
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A charming hilariously funny & genuinely affectionate picture book from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Jesus' Christmas Party. A little girl is looking forward to the Queen's visit to her school -- & wonders what knickers Her Majesty will choose to wear! Will they be her 'at home' knickers
- adorned with corgis -- or her garden party knickers or perhaps her woolly Balmoral ones? Whichever choices from the Official HM Knicker Guide the Queen decides upon the girl is determined that the royal visitor will feel at home at her school. Both children & adults will love this very special & endearing insight into a child's imagination.
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Hal is a poor stable boy who has a dream
- to work for King Henry at his palace in Whitehall. But when he chances upon the royal
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The brilliant new book from bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson set in the children's ward of a 1950s hospital. It's 1953 the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of Engl&. Elsie Kettle can't wait to go to London to see the celebrations on Coronation Day. Elsie lives with her Nan
- her mum works as a showgirl so she's not around very often. Spirited & imaginative but often lonely Elsie longs for a best friend. Luckily she & Nan are very close; Elsie just wishes she was allowed a cat to keep her company sometimes. Then tragedy strikes. Nan & Elsie both fall ill with tuberculosis & Elsie finds herself whisked away to the children's ward of the hospital. Confined to bed for months on end Elsie finds it very hard to adapt to the hospital's strict regime. But she invents astonishing ways of entertaining the other children on the ward & for the first time finds herself surrounded by true friends
- including Queenie the hospital's majestic white cat. Finally Elsie is well enough to leave hospital. But before she does she has one very special very unexpected visitor...

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England's medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the nation. In an age where all politics were family politics dynastic marriages placed English queens at the very centre of power
- the king's bed. From Matilda of Flanders the Conqueror's queen to Elizabeth of York the first Tudor consort England's queens fashioned the nature of monarchy & influenced the direction of the state. Occupying a unique position in the mercurial often violent world of medieval state-craft English queens had to negotiate a role that combined tremendous influence with terrifying vulnerability. Lisa Hilton's meticulously researched new book explores the lives of the twenty women who were crowned queen between 1066 & 1503 reconsidering the fictions surrounding well-known figures like Eleanor of Aquitaine & illuminating the lives of forgotten figures such as Adeliza of Louvain. War adultery witchcraft child abuse murder
- & occassionally even love
- formed English queenship but so too did patronage learning & fashion. Lisa Hilton considers the evolution of the queenly office alongside intimate portraits of the individual women dispelling the myth that medieval brides were no more than diplomatic pawns.


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Home to ancient rainforests tropical islands rugged mountains & the stunning Great Barrier Reef Queensland harbors some of ...

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985 Queer" is an enigma
- both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait
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