From her privileged aristocratic childhood, to the abdication and the problems with Diana, this book questions how the Queen Mother faced her challenges and crises, assess her role, how powerful she was, and how she coped. This is a personal portrait of one of Britain's national treasures.[...]

Details the life of Great Britain's Princess Alice, who married Prince Andrew of Greece in 1903, a union that plunged her into a life of turmoil, fraught with war, exile, and execution, forcing her to be placed into a sanitarium in Switzerland where she was declared a "schizophrenic paranoid," in a [...]

This beautiful collection of fabulous photographs and incisive pen portraits captures the world of Cecil Beaton, one of the most celebrated portrait photographers of the twentieth century. Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles combines Beaton's photographic and pen portraits. Beaton's portraits offer[...]