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    • Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
    • By: Tina Brown
    • Narrated by: Tina Brown
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,386 ratings
    • Picking up where Tina Brown’s masterful The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the trau­matic years when Diana’s blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet....

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    • Never a Dull Moment
    • By: Jane Ridley
    • Narrated by: Joanna David
    • Length: 22 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 182 ratings
    • The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired....

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    • A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
    • By: Tracy Borman
    • Narrated by: Tracy Borman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England’s various kingdoms, 41 kings and queens have sat on Britain’s throne....

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    • The History of the French Revolution
    • By: Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Narrated by: Pete Cross, Jeremy D. Popkin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 276 ratings
    • In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the listener in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society....

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    • Her True Story - in Her Own Words
    • By: Andrew Morton
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,702 ratings
    • The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....

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    • By: Patrick Allitt, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Patrick Allitt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,412 ratings
    • In 10 lectures, award-winning historian Patrick N. Allitt transports listeners to England in the 1840s and 1850s. During those two decades, Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, became one of the most influential people in the country and remains a figure of fascination even today....

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    • Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival
    • By: Omid Scobie
    • Narrated by: Omid Scobie
    • Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 522 ratings
    • Queen Elizabeth II’s death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it....

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    • The Making of the United States Constitution
    • By: Michael J. Klarman
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 31 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were....

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    • Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
    • By: Valentine Low
    • Narrated by: Valentine Low
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them....

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    • Spying and the Crown
    • By: Richard J. Aldrich, Rory Cormac
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the royal family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana....

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    • From the Iron Age to King Charles III
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II—and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III....

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    • The Making of a French Queen
    • By: John Hardman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley
    • Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen....

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    • From Enlightenment to Tyranny
    • By: Ian Davidson
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 874 ratings
    • A vital and illuminating look at this profoundly important (and often perplexing) historical moment, by former Financial Times chief foreign affairs columnist Ian Davidson....

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    • The Official Biography
    • By: James Pope-Hennessy, Hugo Vickers
    • Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
    • Length: 24 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her. Queen Mary's life, contrary to popular belief, was essentially dramatic, and she played a far more important and influential role than her public image might have otherwise suggested....

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    • Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
    • By: Christopher Andersen
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 449 ratings
    • Master biographer Christopher Andersen takes listeners behind palace walls to examine the surprising similarities and stark differences among three remarkable women....

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    • John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: James Lurie
    • Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Arguably, no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia....

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    • By: Matthew Dennison
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
    • Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • An elegant and magisterial new biography of Her Majesty the Queen, tracing the events of a reign that now spans seven decades and evaluating her achievement as a practitioner of monarchy across the entirety of her reign....

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    • A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition
    • By: William Doyle
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let them eat cake, and tricolors....

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    • By: David Starkey
    • Narrated by: David Starkey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • The crown of England is the oldest surviving political institution in Europe....

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    • Lafayette Reconsidered
    • By: Laura Auricchio
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • A major biography of the Marquis de Lafayette, French hero of the American Revolution....

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