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Prince Philip's Century
- The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of Edinburgh
- By: Robert Jobson
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance8
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For decades Prince Philip shared the Queen’s burden of office without upstaging her, always privately providing reassurance and advice but never overstepping the boundaries of his supporting role. It was an unforgiving position - a challenge for anyone - but one that he met head on. He remained the Queen’s adviser and closest confidant and was known as such the world over. That said, he was wise enough to recognise his limitations and the constraints of his role.
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Very interesting
- By Valerie Gibson on 27-08-23
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Prince Philip's Century
- The Extraordinary Life of the Duke of Edinburgh
- Narrated by: Sam Dastor
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 13-05-21
- Language: English
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Matilda
- Empress, Queen, Warrior
- By: Catherine Hanley
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall97
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Performance85
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Story85
A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages.
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Hysterical introduction!
- By john on 04-01-20
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Matilda
- Empress, Queen, Warrior
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-04-19
- Language: English
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The Crown
- The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977
- By: Robert Lacey
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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The fascinating royal and social history that inspired the second and third seasons of The Crown, from the show's historical consultant. In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant...
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Fantastic narration!
- By kate bluffield on 29-07-22
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The Crown
- The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977
- Narrated by: Alex Jennings
- Series: The Crown, Book 2
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 18-11-19
- Language: English
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 7 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall102
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Performance62
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Story63
Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife. Inevitably, there was great rivalry between them; there was jealousy too: the desperate jealousy of queens who found themselves abandoned, but also the sexual jealousy of the king who discovered himself betrayed. The story Antonia Fraser tells is romantic and cruel, funny and sad, dramatic and enthralling. This is historical biography at its best.
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Six of one, and half a dozen of the other...
- By G. HOLMES on 17-08-07
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
- Narrated by: Isla Blair
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 03-01-07
- Language: English
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Great Leaders' Lives
- A BBC biography collection
- By: Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock, and others
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Ranulph Fiennes, George Monbiot, and others
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Household names nominate leaders from the past for BBC Radio 4's Great Lives Since its inception in 2001, Great Lives has been one of Radio 4's most popular programmes, presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and Matthew Parris. The format is simple, but compelling: each...
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Varied and interesting
- By Peter C. on 27-06-26
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Great Leaders' Lives
- A BBC biography collection
- Narrated by: Matthew Parris, Ranulph Fiennes, George Monbiot, Frederick Forsyth, Christopher Hitchens, Ray Mears, Ann Widdecombe, Maxine Peake, Francine Stock, Humphrey Carpenter
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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The Emperor Charlemagne
- By: E.R. Chamberlin
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance40
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Story40
On Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III. Under his guidance the Carolingian Renaissance flourished, with his capital of Aachen becoming a center of learning and artistic genius. The legacy of Charlemagne on European history and culture is monumental. Yet, within 30 years of his death, his empire had fragmented. Who was this legendary ruler? How had he managed to rule these vast domains? And why has his legacy continued to influence Europeans to this day?
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Annoying comments from the author
- By M&m! on 25-11-23
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The Emperor Charlemagne
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-01-21
- Language: English
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Marie Antoinette
- The Portrait of an Average Woman
- By: Stefan Zweig
- Narrated by: AI Voice Audrey Ellsworth
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Stefan Zweig’s Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, is one of the most compelling and psychologically nuanced biographies of the doomed French queen. Renowned for his ability to bring historical figures to life, Zweig offers an intimate...
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Marie Antoinette
- The Portrait of an Average Woman
- Narrated by: AI Voice Audrey Ellsworth
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 30-06-26
- Language: English
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Another Woman's Husband
- By: Gill Paul
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance67
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Story67
It's 1911. Aged just 15, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal.... In 1997, Kendall's romantic break in Paris is shattered when the taxi ahead of them crashes suddenly. The news soon follows: Princess Diana is dead. Trying to forget what she has witnessed, Kendall returns home, where the discovery of a long-forgotten link to Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, will lead her to the truth of a scandal....
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Perfect
- By NickiMags on 16-03-18
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Another Woman's Husband
- Narrated by: Laura Aikman
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 17-08-17
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
- A Biography of Princess Louise
- By: Lucinda Hawksley
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance113
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Story113
The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story has been shielded for years from public view.
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The Princess Diana of her time
- By Bryan James on 09-07-18
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Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter
- A Biography of Princess Louise
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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The Crown in Crisis
- Countdown to the Abdication
- By: Alexander Larman
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance30
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Story30
In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson and crown her as his Queen. His actions scandalised the...
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Abdication = lucky escape
- By Mary Carnegie on 05-08-20
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The Crown in Crisis
- Countdown to the Abdication
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 09-07-20
- Language: English
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Lady Caroline Lamb
- A Free Spirit
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance13
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From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. In 1812 Caroline embarked on a well-publicized affair with the poet Lord Byron—he was 24, she 26. Her phrase 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' became his lasting epitaph. Antonia Fraser's biography animates the life of 'a free spirit' who was far more than mad, bad and dangerous to know.
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Terrible narration
- By Francine D. Pettersen on 18-06-26
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Lady Caroline Lamb
- A Free Spirit
- Narrated by: Penelope Wilton
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 27-07-23
- Language: English
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The King's Speech
- By: Mark Logue, Peter Conradi
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall511
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Performance282
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Story285
Winner of the Best Picture Oscar 2011 Award. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century – amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed ‘The Quack who saved a King’. Logue wasn’t a British aristocrat or even an Englishman – he was a commoner and an Australian to boot.
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I Loved It
- By Jamie on 01-03-11
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The King's Speech
- Narrated by: Jamie Glover
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-01-11
- Language: English
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The Last Princess
- By: Matthew Dennison
- Narrated by: Matthew Dennison
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, later Princess Henry of Battenberg, was the last-born - in 1866 - of Victoria and Albert's children and she would outlive all of her siblings to die as recently as 1944. Her childhood coincided with her mother's extended period of mourning for her prematurely deceased husband, a circumstance which may have contributed to Victoria's determination to keep her youngest daughter as close to her as possible. She would eventually marry Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885, but only after overcoming her mother's opposition to their union.
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Really interesting
- By Mary Bockmaster on 23-02-25
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The Last Princess
- Narrated by: Matthew Dennison
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 26-03-20
- Language: English
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King of the North Wind
- The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
- By: Claudia Gold
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance46
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Henry II conquered the largest empire of any English medieval king. Yet it is the people around him we remember: his wife Eleanor, whom he seduced from the French king; his son Richard the Lionheart; Thomas Becket, murdered in his cathedral. Who was this great, yet tragic king? For fans of Dan...
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Fascinating
- By P. Gigli on 21-09-18
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King of the North Wind
- The Life of Henry II in Five Acts
- Narrated by: Jonathan Oliver
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 12-07-18
- Language: English
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Queen Victoria
- By: Elizabeth Longford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Julia Franklin
- Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Drawing upon Queen Victoria's previously unpublished journals, Elizabeth Longford's classic biography recalls the contrasts and curiosities of an earlier era with exquisite detail - and transforms the queen from a severe, time-worn effigy into a human being who loved, feared and fumed. Longford...
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A Historical Masterpiece
- By Anonymous on 15-05-19
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Queen Victoria
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Julia Franklin
- Length: 33 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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American Heiresses of the Gilded Age
- By: Melissa Ziobro, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall60
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Performance56
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Welcome to the era of true marriages of convenience. Discover the reality of trading someone’s hand in marriage, such as an American heiress, in exchange for money, power, or political clout through compelling history lectures. Showcased in novels such as Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and in present day pop culture through works like Downtown Abbey, the Gilded Age was an era of contradictions. Life on both sides of the Atlantic was grimy and glamorous, prosperous and impoverished, traditional and revolutionary.
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Terrible Narrator!
- By Timothy Heath on 28-08-21
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American Heiresses of the Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Melissa Ziobro
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-12-19
- Language: English
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The Duchess
- By: Amanda Foreman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance39
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one...
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wonderful listen
- By Artemis on 13-09-20
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The Duchess
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-04-16
- Language: English
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King George VI: A Life from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Barry Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The phrase "an heir and a spare" refers to the imperative for members of the royal family to provide both an heir to take on their title and a spare. In this equation King George VI was the spare - the second son of King George V and Mary, and never expected to sit on the throne. King George VI, or Albert as he was known prior to his kingship, had a career in the Royal Navy and served during the First World War before King Edward VIII’s decision to abdicate his throne.
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King George VI: A Life from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Barry Shannon
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 15-11-17
- Language: English
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The Fears of Henry IV
- The Life of England's Self-Made King
- By: Ian Mortimer
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall145
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Performance127
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King Henry IV survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign. However, he had not always been so unpopular. In his youth he had been a great chivalric champion and crusader. In 1399, at the age of 32, he was greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the tyrannical King Richard II. But Henry had to contend with men who supported him only as long as they could control him; when they failed, they plotted to kill him. Adversaries also tried to take advantage of his questionable right to the crown.
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I learned a lot about two Reigns
- By Kirstine on 27-03-19
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The Fears of Henry IV
- The Life of England's Self-Made King
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 22 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-10-18
- Language: English
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance90
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A charming account of the life of enigmatic Queen Mary, wife of King George V, and a magnetic portrait of a vanished age 'Gloriously indiscreet . . . the best royal book ever' - Harry Mount, Financial Times When James Pope-Hennessy began his work on Queen Mary's official biography, it opened the...
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Maddening foot notes!
- By Ruby G on 17-01-19
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The Quest for Queen Mary
- James Pope-Hennessy's official biography of Queen Mary, edited by 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - Financial Times
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Tim Bentinck
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 28-09-18
- Language: English
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