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|title=Grace: Her Lives - Her Loves: The startling royal exposé
|author=Robert Lacey
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=Twenty-five years before another so-called fairytale royal romance which turned out to be anything but, one of America’s most beloved screen goddesses crossed the Atlantic and married into the principality of Monaco. The ceremony in 1956 was hailed as the wedding of the year, but like the later and similar event, it was not the happiest of unions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191016738X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rainforest
|summary=It’s easy to see why Jung Chang selected Cixi as the focal point for her study of China’s tumultuous modern history. Cixi is a truly fascinating woman, one of few human beings whose existence can be honestly said to have shaped the course of history. Cixi’s biography is not only a fascinating read due to her own political machinations, but also because of the immense transformations that occurred in China during her lifetime. Jung Chang offers a detailed exploration of the period from Cixi’s entrance to court in 1852 to her death in 1908, during which time the ancient dynastic customs of China gave way to the advent of the industrial age.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224087436</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
|author=Jane Ridley
|rating=5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Several of the main facts about King Edward VII (1841-1910) are reasonably well-known. Considered oversexed by his parents, Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort, he was blamed by the former for breaking the latter's heart and causing his early death with the news that he (Edward) had enjoyed himself with a lady of the night. He was notoriously unfaithful to his charming but prematurely deaf and lame wife Alexandra, hated reading books and learning but became a first-class unofficial ambassador to courts and countries abroad, and despite low expectations of others and poor health he made an excellent King for the last nine years of his life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575442</amazonuk>
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