Prince Louie

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Maps -- Tables -- Plates -- INTRODUCTION -- chapter one THE SHAPING OF A PRINCE -- chapter two FATHER AND SON -- chapter three THE INVITATION -- chapter four KING OF ENGLAND? -- chapter five THE TIDE TURNS -- chapter six FIGHTING BACK -- chapter seven THE END OF THE ADVENTURE -- chapter eight AFTERMATH -- chapter nine KING OF FRANCE -- chapter ten LEGACY -- CHRONOLOGY -- A NOTE ON SOURCES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

And then they were five! On April 23, 2018, Prince William and Kate Middleton added another son to their family: Prince Louis Arthur Charles of Cambridge. A new baby is always a cause of great joy, but a new little Windsor is a cause for celebration for royal-watchers around the world. People's new Commemorative Edition, William, Kate & Family Welcome Prince Louis, is filled to the bonnet with the latest royal fare, presenting baby Louis's first pictures with his parents, and the most adorable moments in the young lives of his brother and sister. This inside look at the rarefied, yet shockingly regular world of Prince George and Princess Charlotte shows what it's really like "growing up royal." Plus: The special bonds between royal siblings, from Queen Elizabeth and her sister, to William and Harry. And, of course, we include dozens and dozens of adorable pictures featuring the royal youngsters that are sure to melt your heart!

On the planet Janos in the far reaches of the Andromeda Galaxy, people on this planet have the ability to shape-shift into their animal breed, even including the people who have intellectual disabilities. The Lobo family""Max, the father; Vermoose, his son; and daughter, Babs""has the ability to shape-shift into wolves. Their adventures into Special Olympics on the planet Janos had been chronicled into two stories of the Special Olympic Games (winter and summer). The first story is about Babs, who was a Special Olympian and had entered into the snowshoe race and competed against a royal prince who has Down syndrome. Prince Andrew is kidnapped by three men who want to see his father, Prince Louis, succeed to the throne of Britalia. Babs felt that she was responsible for the kidnapping and would try to rescue Prince Andrew but had the help from her family in doing so. In the second story, "Summer Games," Babs wanted to learn how to ride a horse but was facing the barrier that the horses had a fear of her. Her new friends include Rale, who lived with his alcoholic mother and got reunited with his long-lost father, and Danny, who also has Down syndrome but enjoyed swimming in the local pool with his father. The story of the Special Janosians is a fictionalized story about Special Olympics on the planet Janos. It is a story of love, adventure, drama, and humor. Special Olympics is an organization that is committed to individuals who have intellectual disabilities. Special Olympics enriches the lives of these individuals through sport all year round. The sight of Special Olympics is that sport and other activities will enrich but also open the minds and hearts of the general public toward these individuals who have intellectual disabilities.

Whenever the British Press wants to attack the Royal Family, they make a jibe about “their foreign roots”. The Royals – as they say – are simply a posh version of German invaders. But did German relatives really influence decisions made by any British monarchs or are they just an “imagined community”, invented by journalists and historians? The Royal Archives at Windsor gave the authors – among others John Röhl, doyen of 19th century monarchical history – open access to Royal correspondences with six German houses: Hanover, Prussia, Mecklenburg, Coburg, Hesse and Battenberg.

In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its proper historical importance the role of sea power in the winning of the Great War. The predominant image of this first world war is of mud and trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, poison gas, and slaughter. A generation of European manhood was massacred, and a wound was inflicted on European civilization that required the remainder of the twentieth century to heal. But with all its sacrifice, trench warfare did not win the war for one side or lose it for the other. Over the course of four years, the lines on the Western Front moved scarcely at all; attempts to break through led only to the lengthening of the already unbearably long casualty lists. For the true story of military upheaval, we must look to the sea. On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen. When war came, these two fleets of dreadnoughts—gigantic floating castles of steel able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away—were ready to test their terrible power against each other. Their struggles took place in the North Sea and the Pacific, at the Falkland Islands and the Dardanelles. They reached their climax when Germany, suffocated by an implacable naval blockade, decided to strike against the British ring of steel. The result was Jutland, a titanic clash of fifty-eight dreadnoughts, each the home of a thousand men. When the German High Seas Fleet retreated, the kaiser unleashed unrestricted U-boat warfare, which, in its indiscriminate violence, brought a reluctant America into the war. In this way, the German effort to “seize the trident” by defeating the British navy led to the fall of the German empire. Ultimately, the distinguishing feature of Castles of Steel is the author himself. The knowledge, understanding, and literary power Massie brings to this story are unparalleled. His portrayals of Winston Churchill, the British admirals Fisher, Jellicoe, and Beatty, and the Germans Scheer, Hipper, and Tirpitz are stunning in their veracity and artistry. Castles of Steel is about war at sea, leadership and command, courage, genius, and folly. All these elements are given magnificent scope by Robert K. Massie’ s special and widely hailed literary mastery. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great.

Bleeding severely from battle, Prince Louis returns to Valtearea Castle to warn his kingdom that King Lightenwood's army is coming to steal the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. However, it wasn't only the blood-stained cloth that wicked King Lightenwood sought to take but also the beautiful Princess Bella. Now pitted against this brave young Prince, King Lightenwood did not expect the battle nor the intrigue from a valiant Prince willing to risk everything to rescue his wife and to become the new Keeper of the Shroud.