The Mother's Crown Jewels
Author: Charlotte Ward (formerly Wheeler, formerly Bickersteth.)
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Published: 1886
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charlotte Ward (formerly Wheeler, formerly Bickersteth.)
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Published: 1886
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler
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Published: 1885
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charlotte Bickersteth Wheeler
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2015-09-21
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781343373129
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Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-09-12
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1635570778
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.
Author: Anna Keay
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500289822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text captures the magnificence of a collection of symbolic objects steeped in English history like no other: the crown jewels.
Author: M.J. Rose
Publisher: Blue Box Press
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1952457084
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller M.J. Rose comes a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in post-World War II Manhattan, who stumbles upon a hidden treasure and begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs. Sophia Moon had always been reticent about her life in Russia and when she dies, suspiciously, on a wintry New York evening, Isobelle despairs that her mother’s secrets have died with her. But while renovating the apartment they shared, Isobelle discovers something among her mother’s effects—a stunning silver tiara, stripped of its jewels. Isobelle’s research into the tiara’s provenance draws her closer to her mother’s past—including the story of what became of her father back in Russia, a man she has never known. The facts elude her until she meets a young jeweler, who wants to help her but is conflicted by his loyalty to the Midas Society, a covert international organization whose mission is to return lost and stolen antiques, jewels, and artwork to their original owners. Told in alternating points of view, the stories of the two young women unfurl as each struggles to find their way during two separate wars. In 1915, young Sofiya Petrovitch, favorite of the royal household and best friend of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, tends to wounded soldiers in a makeshift hospital within the grounds of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg and finds the love of her life. In 1948 New York, Isobelle Moon works to break through the rampant sexism of the age as one of very few women working in a male-dominated profession and discovers far more about love and family than she ever hoped for. In M.J. Rose’s deftly constructed narrative, the secrets of Sofiya’s early life are revealed incrementally, even as Isobelle herself works to solve the mystery of the historic Romanov tiara (which is based on an actual Romanov artifact that is, to this day, still missing)—and how it is that her mother came to possess it. The two strands play off each other in finely-tuned counterpoint, building to a series of surprising and deeply satisfying revelations.
Author: Anna Keay
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780500515754
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Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780439164849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mischievous and daring, a young princess ascends to new heights after a life of trials and tribulations.
Author: Harriet B. McKeever
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-01-23
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 3385321077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.