This is the definitive biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - a fascinating account of an extraordinary life. Jackie Bouvier's privileged upbringing instilled rigid self-control, while her expedient marriage into the Kennedy clan consolidated her determination. Revealing new testimony from many of the couple's closest friends, this title shows the profound complexities both of this very public relationship, including the affairs that threatened it, and of her controversial marriage to Onassis. Here is the private Jackie - neglected wife, vigilant mother, obsessive shopper and working widow - whose fascinating nature is illuminated by all that Bradford has discovered.

America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Biographies & Memoirs

Sarah Bradford

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

The author of America's Queen draws on exclusive interviews with individuals closest to the late iconic princess to discuss her life behind the scandals and myths, tracing her old-fashioned courtship with Prince Charles, transformation from an unworldly teenager into a high-profile public figure with a complicated private life, and the role of Camilla Parker Bowles in the collapse of her fairy-tale marriage.

Diana

Penguin Audio

1st 1989 Weidenfeld & Nicolson edition hardcover fine condition book in fine price clipped condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

King George VI

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Based on privileged access to Prince Rainier and other intimates of the royal circle, this biography portrays the life of the famous actress-turned-princess, from her childhood in Philadelphia to her royal life in Monte Carlo

Princess Grace

History

Europe

GRANADA

Lucrezia Borgia: life, love and death in Renaissance Italy

VIKING

Lucrezia Borgia - an infamous murderess or simply the victim of bad press? Lucrezia Borgia's name has echoed through history as a byword for evil - a poisoner who committed incest with her natural father, Pope Alexander VI, and with her brother, Cesare Borgia. Long considered the most ruthless of Italian Renaissance noblewomen, her tarnished reputation has prevailed long since her own lifetime. In this definitive biography, a work of huge scholarship and erudition, Sarah Bradford gives a fascinating account of Lucrezia's life in all its colourful controversy. Daughter, sister, wife and mother, Lucrezia Borgia was surrounded by wealth, privilege and intrigue. But what was the truth behind her extraordinary existence - was she a monster of cruelty and deceit, or simply the pawn of her power-hungry father and brother?

Lucrezia Borgia : Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

Viking Adult

Cesare Borgia: His Life and Times

Futura Publications

The Borgias (A Futura book)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Macdonald

Brand New! Gift Quality! ps: small wear on dustcover edges

America's Queen The Life of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis

Best-selling biographer Bradford offers a new slant on an old subject. Characteristically acknowledged as one of the most notorious women in history, Lucrezia Borgia has traditionally been accused of incest, murder, and political treachery. What Bradford convincingly argues is that she was actually a woman firmly grounded in the social strictures of her time, one who found it necessary to use her beauty, her intelligence, and her incredible resolve to eventually forge her own destiny. The illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, Lucrezia was initially a pawn to be married and divorced according to the whims and the political ambitions of her father and her brother. After her brother ordered the murder of her second husband, she took matters firmly into her own hands, orchestrating a third marriage to the reluctant duke of Ferrara. As a member of the formidable Este family, the new duchess was at long last able to apply her own considerable talents to the skillful administration of both the city-state and the royal court. Since no portrait of Lucrezia Borgia as a true Renaissance woman would be complete without a trace of scandal, this compelling biography is irresistibly interwoven with plenty of period gossip, sex, and intrigue.

Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy

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