Kate Hubbard: 3 books
Devices and Desires
Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
The critically acclaimed author of Serving Victoria brilliantly illuminates the life of the little-known Bess of Hardwick—next to Queen Elizabeth I, the richest and most powerful woman in sixteenth-century England.
Aided by a quartet of judicious marriages and a shrewd head for business,...
Serving Victoria
Life in the Royal Household
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
During her sixty-three-year reign, Queen Victoria gathered around herself a household dedicated to her service. For some, royal employment was the defining experience of their lives; for others it came as an unwelcome duty or as a prelude to greater things. Serving Victoria follows the lives of six...
Queen Victoria
The woman who ruled the world
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Victoria was just 18 when she was crowned Queen in 1837 – a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it.
But in 1861 tragedy struck, when her husband Albert died. The little Queen loved dogs and cream cakes and...