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Class, money, inheritance, luxury and snobbery dominated every aspect of the lives of the upper-crust Edwardian family. Below stairs the staff inhabited a completely different world, their very dependent on servicing the rich and pandering to their masters' every whim. Rubbing shoulders with wealth and privilege, they were privy to the most intimate and darkest secrets.

Tremlett delivers the first major biography in nearly half a century of the Spanish Queen of Henry VIII--the woman who changed the face of Tudor and European history.

A portrait of the woman for whom Edward VIII infamously abdicated the British throne draws on journal entries, letters, and other previously unseen records to analyze her complex personality against the backdrop of Jazz Age London.

A biography of the scandalous Elizabeth Chudleigh, Duchess of Kingston, whose infamous bigamy trial was bigger news in British society than the American War of Independence, reveals a woman who defied society's expectations of her.

The author documents a low period in her life and how she found strength in her struggles with adversity and eventually regained her sense of purpose for her life with the help of friends and several celebrity experts. The Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson shares her journey to find herself, describing how, with the help of experts like Dr. Phil McGraw, Suze Orman, and Martha Beck, and her friends and family, she gained a new understanding of her relationship...

Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to...

A profile of the niece of Henry VIII reveals her contributions to sixteenth century politics, covering her two affairs, arrangement of her son's marriage to Mary Queen of Scots, and role in securing the English throne for her grandson, Scotland's James VI.

Highclere Castle has a new resident, the daughter-in-law of Lady Almina, an American beauty from New York and a descendant of famous American families, in this real-life story that draws on original source material.

A new edition of Balsan's memoir--the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of "Downton Abbey." Balsan was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead for her to marry an English Duke. She soon became part of a intricate hierarchy and witness to a life of glamor.