Born to Rule

Author: Julia P. Gelardi
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429904550
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an historical tour de force that weaves together the powerful and moving stories of the five royal granddaughters of Queen Victoria. These five women were all married to reigning European monarchs during the early part of the 20th century, and it was their reaction to the First World War that shaped the fate of a continent and the future of the modern world. Here are the stories of Alexandra, whose enduring love story, controversial faith in Rasputin, and tragic end have become the stuff of legend; Marie, the flamboyant and eccentric queen who battled her way through a life of intrigues and was also the mother of two Balkan queens and of the scandalous Carol II of Romania; Victoria Eugenie, Spain's very English queen who, like Alexandra, introduced hemophilia into her husband's family-with devastating consequences for her marriage; Maud, King Edward VII's daughter, who was independent Norway's reluctant queen; and Sophie, Kaiser Wilhelm II's much maligned sister, daughter of an Emperor and herself the mother of no less than three kings and a queen, who ended her days in bitter exile. Born to Rule evokes a world of luxury, wealth, and power in a bygone era, while also recounting the ordeals suffered by a unique group of royal women who at times faced poverty, exile, and death. Praised in their lifetimes for their legendary beauty, many of these women were also lauded-and reviled-for their political influence. Using never before published letters, memoirs, diplomatic documents, secondary sources, and interviews with descendents of the subjects, Julia Gelardi's Born to Rule is an astonishing and memorable work of popular history.

Born to Rule

Author: Aaron S. Reeves
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
This data-rich sociological study uses everything from census figures to Who's Who to analyze how, over 125 years, the British elite have used status, elite education, and powerful social networks to shape politics and cultural values. But what happens when elites begin to change--in what they look like, value, and how they position themselves?

Born to Rule

Author: Paddy Manning
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522868819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Born to Rule is the unauthorised biography that unravels the many layers of the man who has just become the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. The highs and lows of Malcolm Turnbull's remarkable career are documented here in technicolour detail by journalist Paddy Manning. Based on countless interviews and painstaking research, it is a forensic investigation into one of Australia's most celebrated overachievers. Turnbull's relentless energy and quest for achievement have taken him from exclusive Point Piper to Oxford University; from beating the Thatcher government in the Spycatcher trial to losing the referendum on the republic; from defending the late Kerry Packer—codenamed Goanna—in the Costigan Royal Commission to defending his own role in the failure of HIH, Australia's biggest corporate collapse. He was involved in the unravelling of the Tourang bid for Fairfax, struck it rich as co-founder of OzEmail, and fought his own hotly contested battle for Wentworth. As opposition leader he was duped by Godwin Grech's 'Utegate' fiasco; as the most tech-savvy communications minister he oversaw a nobbled NBN scheme. And now he has assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party for the second time after wresting the prime ministership from first-term PM Tony Abbott. Will Turnbull crash and burn as he has before or has his entire tumultuous life been a rehearsal for this moment?

Born to Rule

Author: Tah Asongwed
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956558427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Born to Rule is the autobiography of an African-president monarch who does not want to pass away without leaving anything in writing to future generations. The book is more than just the autobiography of a president in that it has responded to all the key issues that most people have been asking about the development and underdevelopment of Africa. It is a seminal contribution to the world's collective knowledge of African and world history. At times it is compellingly incisive, satiric, and tongue-in-cheek and, in some places, trenchantly hard-hitting and humorous in its brutal portrayal of the way Mandzah and, by extension, the African continent, is managed and mismanaged.

Born to Rule

Author: Christian Santiago
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781733403023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
IT'S TIME YOU STOPPED LIVING SMALL AND STARTED SEEING THE REAL YOU. Did you know when God made you, He did it with something greater in mind than how you're currently living? Believe it or not, God created you with the intention to rule on Earth as He rules in Heaven. Unfortunately, this birthright we all have deep within us has either been lost or buried. There's good news, though: the birthright to rule can be reclaimed. In Born To Rule, you will journey back to the beginning to rediscover the primary purpose for mankind and learn how to actualize this purpose into every area of your life. After all, rulership is why you were created. In This Book You Will: - Reclaim your birthright to rule on Earth as your Father rules in Heaven - Restore your identity as a King or Queen under God - Rewire your mind with Rulership Beliefs

Born to Rule: Awaken the Bornceo Within You: 7 Steps to Claiming Your Freedom & Living Your Purpose

Author: Coach Fard Bell
Publisher: Born to Rule
ISBN: 9781796320244
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
In this first book of the 'Born To Rule' series, Coach Fard Bell shares an inspirational story about the 7 steps to claiming your freedom and living your purpose. Inspired by his own transformation from not wanting to be alive, to now living his true purpose, he shares the life-changing strategies that allowed him to discover his true purpose and retire 40 years early to pursue it.

Born to Be Giants

Author: Lita Judge
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596434430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

Book Description
Through easy to read text, this book shows readers how baby dinosaurs grew up to be giants.

The Dynasty

Author: Sunita Aron
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 9385827103
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
Why are surnames so important in politics? Should there be birth entitlements to inheritance of power in a democratic set-up? Must the offspring be given on a platter what the common people have to struggle for? Believers in meritocracy and equitable distribution of power would cry in chorus: ‘No’. Then why is India’s vibrant democracy stained with dynastic politics in which bereavement is also used to transfer power? The Nehru-Gandhi family has so far been singularly held responsible for this widespread political malaise. Rightly so! Had Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru not dithered when his daughter Indira Gandhi stood for presidentship of the Congress almost six decades back, dynastic politics would not have crept into our rich democracy and grown into a monster. What the father founded, the daughter fostered. Since then, innumerable dynasties – old and new, big and small, famous and infamous – dot the country’s political landscape today. Non-Congress parties, though equally guilty, have sporadically raised the issue of hereditary politics but never as intensely as in the watershed 2014 Lok Sabha polls when the voters debated and debunked the right to rule on the basis of birth certificate and not merit. They handed over the reins of the country to a non-dynast, Narendra Modi, punished the country’s grand old party for its non-performance and its scam-ridden tenure and, yet, elected many dynastic scions – a peculiar contradiction, but that’s what Indian politics is all about! This volume incisively analyses the unethical games politicians play to remain in power and grow into brands.

Born to Destroy

Author: Winifred Rule
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692208199
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Calixtus the Second, 1119-1124

Author: Mary Stroll
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004139877
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 561

Book Description
This new interpretation of the reign of Calixtus II (1119-1124) challenges the conventional analysis explaining why this life-long opponent of the emperor, Henry V, agreed to compromise over imperial investitures of bishops in the Concordat of Worms of 1122.