Author: Russell Gray
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375256007X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author: Mrs. M. C. GRAY
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Mrs. M. C. GRAY
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Languages : en
Pages : 194

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Author: M. C. Gray
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230285658
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. OUR PRESENT ROYAL FAMILY. 'The people shouted, "May she live, Victoria live," aloud; And, as the loyal shouts went up, true spirits prayed between, The blessings happy monarchs have be thine, O crowned Queen.' Barrett. T has been remarked that many children, well informed in English history, who can give an accurate account of the different lines of Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart, in all their various branches and relationships, become somewhat puzzled and abroad when the present royal family are in question. This, I think, is in some measure owing to the fact that, after having read of King George the Third having left so many sons, they yet find a Queen, who was not the 'daughter of a king, ' filling the throne. It is principally for this class of my young readers, that, in this concluding chapter, I shall give a short explanation of the circumstances which led to the succession of her present Majesty. All must be aware that the eldest son of George the Third, succeeded him as George the Fourth. His only child, had she survived him, would have reigned as Queen in her own right, as Queen Victoria does now. Deep sadness overspread the land when the news came from Claremont, one dark November day, that the beloved Princess Charlotte, the hope and darling of the nation, and her new-born infant son, were both dead. Her husband, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, now the venerable King of the Belgians, and uncle of the Queen, was quite inconsolable, and the whole country mourned, as if for a loss that could never be repaired; but God's ways are far above our sight, and are ever ordered for some wise purpose. The year following the death of the lamented Princess Charlotte, and that preceding the death of George the Third, three of the...

Author: Mary Prince
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486146936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.

Author: Mike Bartlett
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822232383
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 107

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THE STORY: The Queen is dead: After a lifetime of waiting, the prince ascends the throne. A future of power. But how to rule? Mike Bartlett’s controversial play explores the people beneath the crowns, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family.

Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736407084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67

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Alfred the Great Prince Arthur Henry the Third The First Prince of Wales Edward the Black Prince Henry the Fifth and the Baby King WHEN I was very, very little, I hated history more than all my other lessons put together, because I had to learn it out of a horrid little book, called somebody's "Outlines of English History"; and it seemed to be all the names of the kings and the dates of battles, and, believing it to be nothing else, I hated it accordingly. I hope you do not think anything so foolish, because, really, history is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of these days. The people in those old times were the same kind of people who live now. Mothers loved their children then, and fathers worked for them, just as mothers and fathers do now, and children then were good or bad, as the case might be, just as little children are now. And the people you read about in history were real live people, who were good and bad, and glad and sorry, just as people are now-a-days.

Author: Robert Lacey
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759511616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England -- from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionheart, the Venerable Bede to Piers the Ploughman. The greatest historians are vivid storytellers, Robert Lacey reminds us, and in Great Tales from English History, he proves his place among them, illuminating in unforgettable detail the characters and events that shaped a nation. In this volume, Lacey limns the most important period in England's past, highlighting the spread of the English language, the rejection of both a religion and a traditional view of kingly authority, and an unstoppable movement toward intellectual and political freedom from 1387 to 1689. Opening with Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and culminating in William and Mary's "Glorious Revolution," Lacey revisits some of the truly classic stories of English history: the Battle of Agincourt, where Henry V's skilled archers defeated a French army three times as large; the tragic tale of the two young princes locked in the Tower of London (and almost certainly murdered) by their usurping uncle, Richard III; Henry VIII's schismatic divorce, not just from his wife but from the authority of the Catholic Church; "Bloody Mary" and the burning of religious dissidents; Sir Francis Drake's dramatic, if questionable, part in the defeat of the Spanish Armada; and the terrible and transformative Great Fire of London, to name but a few. Here Anglophiles will find their favorite English kings and queens, villains and victims, authors and architects - from Richard II to Anne Boleyn, the Virgin Queen to Oliver Cromwell, Samuel Pepys to Christopher Wren, and many more. Continuing the "eminently readable, highly enjoyable" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) history he began in volume I of Great Tales from English History, Robert Lacey has drawn on the most up-to-date research to present a taut and riveting narrative, breathing life into the most pivotal characters and exciting landmarks in England's history.

Author: Mrs. Russell Gray
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Category : Princes
Languages : en
Pages : 213

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Author: Charles Grey
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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