Bestsellers
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Spare
- By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling....
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Gutterball!
- By Jimmyjoejangles on 01-10-23
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Henry V
- The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king.
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Dan jones is honestly the best
- By Joseph calpas on 10-10-24
By: Dan Jones
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....
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Wonderful overall with one issue...
- By globewest on 07-02-17
By: Andrew Morton
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- A Voyage around the Queen
- By: Craig Brown
- Narrated by: Craig Brown, Harriet Walter
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Up until now, the curious tactic employed by biographers of the Queen has been to ignore what is interesting and to concentrate on what is not. Craig Brown rejects this formula, bringing his kaleidoscopic approach to the most famous—and most guarded—woman on earth, Queen Elizabeth II.
By: Craig Brown
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The Eagle and the Hart
- The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- By: Helen Castor
- Narrated by: Helen Castor
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
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From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England.
By: Helen Castor
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Spare
- By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling....
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Gutterball!
- By Jimmyjoejangles on 01-10-23
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Henry V
- The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king.
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Dan jones is honestly the best
- By Joseph calpas on 10-10-24
By: Dan Jones
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The Plantagenets
- The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
- By: Dan Jones
- Narrated by: Dan Jones
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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The first Plantagenet king inherited a blood-soaked kingdom from the Normans and transformed it into an empire stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic history, Dan Jones vividly resurrects this fierce and seductive royal dynasty and its mythic world....
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Old book--new narrator
- By Kay Long/The Lady Kay on 02-02-24
By: Dan Jones
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Diana
- Her True Story - in Her Own Words
- By: Andrew Morton
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....
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Wonderful overall with one issue...
- By globewest on 07-02-17
By: Andrew Morton
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- A Voyage around the Queen
- By: Craig Brown
- Narrated by: Craig Brown, Harriet Walter
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Up until now, the curious tactic employed by biographers of the Queen has been to ignore what is interesting and to concentrate on what is not. Craig Brown rejects this formula, bringing his kaleidoscopic approach to the most famous—and most guarded—woman on earth, Queen Elizabeth II.
By: Craig Brown
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The Eagle and the Hart
- The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
- By: Helen Castor
- Narrated by: Helen Castor
- Length: 20 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From an acclaimed historian and author comes an epic history: the dual biography of Richard II and Henry IV, two cousins whose lives played out in extraordinary parallel, until Henry deposed the tyrant Richard and declared himself King of England.
By: Helen Castor
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Catherine de Medici
- Renaissance Queen of France
- By: Leonie Frieda
- Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
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Poisoner, despot, necromancer - the dark legend of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In this critically hailed biography, Leonie Frieda reclaims the story of this unjustly maligned queen to reveal a skilled ruler battling extraordinary political and personal odds....
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Narrator didn't get one name right
- By Georgina García- Menocal on 09-15-19
By: Leonie Frieda
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The Palace Papers
- Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Tina Brown reads her book
- By Karen on 04-26-22
By: Tina Brown
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Revenge
- Meghan, Harry, and the War Between the Windsors
- By: Tom Bower
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
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This instant #1 internationally bestselling “explosive tell-all” (Daily Express, London) reveals the inside story about Meghan Markle’s journey from minor actress and attempted activist to the woman powerful enough to fracture the British Royal Family.
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THE Truth, Not “HER Truth”
- By Trump16 on 09-05-22
By: Tom Bower
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The Diana Chronicles
- By: Tina Brown
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
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Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess" or a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic? Only Tina Brown can give us the truth....
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One of the best Diana's
- By J F Whitmore on 08-02-12
By: Tina Brown
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....
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Scholarly but gripping
- By William on 06-16-16
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A Very Private School
- A Memoir
- By: Charles Spencer
- Narrated by: Charles Spencer
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, first-hand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Charles Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system.
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SO INTERESTING, SO UPSETTING, SO BELIEVABLE!
- By Mary Burnight on 03-15-24
By: Charles Spencer
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The Lady in the Tower
- The Fall of Anne Boleyn
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Judith Boyd
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The imprisonment and execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, in 1536 was unprecedented in English history and never before has there been a book devoted entirely to her fall.
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Nicely focused on Anne Boleyn
- By Susana on 08-08-24
By: Alison Weir
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Courtiers
- Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor
- By: Valentine Low
- Narrated by: Valentine Low
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates, from the journalist who has spent years studying them....
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author narrator
- By Amazon Customer on 01-26-23
By: Valentine Low
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Catherine the Great
- Portrait of a Woman
- By: Robert K. Massie
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....
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Loved everyone minute!
- By Elizabeth on 02-05-12
By: Robert K. Massie
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Lady in Waiting
- My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
- By: Anne Glenconner
- Narrated by: Anne Glenconner
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner - a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's The Crown....
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Horrible Reading
- By Teddy hall on 03-27-20
By: Anne Glenconner
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Marie Antoinette
- The Journey
- By: Antonia Fraser
- Narrated by: Donada Peters
- Length: 20 hrs and 27 mins
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France's iconic queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous "Let them eat cake", was alternately revered and reviled during her lifetime....
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Annoying Narration
- By LaFemmeRouge on 10-28-06
By: Antonia Fraser
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
- The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History
- By: Tracy Borman
- Narrated by: Tracy Borman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth....
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Brimming with Inaccuracies
- By Marie A. on 06-20-23
By: Tracy Borman
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Crown & Sceptre
- 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
- Unabridged
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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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Great book for those new to the monarchy
- By Chris Corsini on 04-05-22
By: Tracy Borman
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The Making of a King
- King Charles III and the Modern Monarchy
- By: Robert Hardman
- Narrated by: Robert Hardman
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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No British monarch has had a tougher act to follow. Now, after seventy years of waiting and preparation, King Charles III is not just the head of the most famous family in the world....
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Bitter and bothered!?
- By Cole Jr. Family on 02-25-24
By: Robert Hardman
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Endgame
- Inside the Royal Family and the Monarchy’s Fight for Survival
- By: Omid Scobie
- Narrated by: Omid Scobie
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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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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Absolute GARBAGE & LIES!
- By THEPORTLAND ARCHIVES on 11-29-23
By: Omid Scobie
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Spare
- Il minore
- By: Prince Harry
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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È stata una delle più strazianti immagini del Ventesimo secolo: due ragazzini, due principi, che seguono il feretro della madre sotto gli occhi addolorati del mondo...
By: Prince Harry
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Blood and Oil
- Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
- By: Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS....
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Nothing New Here
- By Susie Takach Seligman on 09-10-20
By: Bradley Hope, and others
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Henry VIII: King and Court
- By: Alison Weir
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent biography of Henry VIII is set against the cultural, social and political background of his court and the splendour of his many sumptuous palaces....
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A concise focus with tremendous detail
- By kwdayboise (Kim Day) on 05-24-17
By: Alison Weir
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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
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Henry so famed during his lifetime has slipped into the shadows of history. King of the North Wind offers a fresh evaluation of this great yet tragic ruler....
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Great great great
- By Runner lady on 03-22-24
By: Claudia Gold
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My Mother and I
- By: Ingrid Seward
- Narrated by: Julie Teal, Ingrid Seward
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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This is the story of how King Charles was shaped and moulded by his heritage....
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Most creditable biography of the modern Windors
- By Sarah P. on 04-20-24
By: Ingrid Seward
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Catherine de' Medici
- The Life and Times of the Serpent Queen
- By: Mary Hollingsworth
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge, Sophie Hunter
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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History is rarely kind to women of power, but few have had their reputations quite so brutally shredded as Catherine de’ Medici, Italian-born queen of France and influential mother of three successive French kings.
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Countering centuries of disinformation
- By Adeliese Baumann on 09-15-24
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En la sombra [Spare]
- By: Príncipe Harry duque de Sussex, Laura Martín de Dios - translator, Laura Rins Calahorra - translator, and others
- Narrated by: Aleix Peña Miralles
- Length: 19 hrs and 6 mins
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Fue una de las imágenes más desgarradoras del siglo XX: dos niños, dos príncipes, caminando detrás del féretro de su madre mientras el mundo contemplaba la escena con pesar... y horror....
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Tiempo perdido
- By Loreto on 02-24-23
By: Príncipe Harry duque de Sussex, and others
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- By: A.L. Sadler, Stephen Turnbull - foreword, Alexander Bennett - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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Uncover the true story of the man who unified medieval Japan....
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This is a boring reference book
- By Antone Ferreira on 05-25-24
By: A.L. Sadler, and others
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The Last King of America
- The Misunderstood Reign of George III
- By: Andrew Roberts
- Narrated by: Phillipe Stevens
- Length: 36 hrs and 2 mins
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The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating - and will completely change the way listeners and historians view his reign and legacy....
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Fantastic .. a proud defense of George III
- By Wyatt on 11-12-21
By: Andrew Roberts