ISBN: 009953973X
Godina izdanja: 2008
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alison Weir - Britain`s Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy
Vintage Books, 2008
389 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

A unique book on Britain’s royal families by this well established popular historian.

Britain’s Royal Families is a unique reference book providing, for the first time in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today’s royal family.

`George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot, daughter of a Wapping shoemaker, who is said to have borne him three children. Documents relating to the alleged marriage, bearing the Prince`s signature, were impounded and examined in 1866 by the Attorney General. Learned opinion at the time leaned to the view that these documents were genuine. They were then placed in the Royal Archives at Windsor; in 1910, permission was refused a would-be author who asked to see them. If George III did make such a marriage when he was Prince of Wales, before the passing of the Royal Marriages Act in 1772, then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot, if they ever existed.` From Britain`s Royal Families Britain`s Royal Families is a unique reference book. It provides, for the first time in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Here is the vital biographical information relating not only to each monarch, but also to every member of their immediate family, from parents to grandchildren. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today`s royal family.

Alison Weir’s books include Britain’s Royal Families; The Six Wives of Henry VIII; Children of England; Eleanor of Aquitaine; Henry VIII: King and Court; Mary, Queen of Scots; and most recently, Isabella.

Contents
1 The Saxon and Danish Kings of England
2 The Norman Kings of England
3 The Angevin or Plantagenet Kings of England
4 The Later Plantagenets: The Houses of Lancaster and York
5 The Tudors
6 The Kings and Queens of Scotland from the 9th Century to 1603
Part One: The House of MacAlpine
Part Two: The House of Dunkeld
Part Three: The House of Balliol
Part Four: The House of Bruce
Part Five: The House of Stewart
7 The House of Stuart
8 The House of Hanover
9 The House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha becomes the House of Windsor
Author`s Note
Select Bibliography


Nonfiction, History, 009953973X