Royal Outcasts The Coronation

Brandon King is your ordinary married hardworking dude, or so he thought until tonight. Working late night at a restaurant on one of the busiest football home game nights in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, his life is turned upside down and changes forever in an instant. He finds out that he is the last of a royal bloodline and not the person he thought he was and its a truth that can get him killed...again. If this wasn’t enough, he also learns about a cult trying to awaken an ancient evil who wants to enslave all of humanity. Can Brandon and his husband, with help from some unexpected friends, stop humanity from becoming slaves to this new terror before its too late? Come, be a guest at the Coronation. Also, there are puppies.

A warrior haunted by his cursed past... Pledged to protect dark secrets that could destroy his family's honor, Ross MacIntosh cannot afford to lose his heart. Sent by his king into Pictland, he knows his duty. To report back on any signs of treachery. He might not trust his king but as a warrior his fealty is absolute, and his path is clear. But when he’s attacked and left for dead, he awakes to discover his healer is the intriguing Pictish princess, Orabel, and his carefully planned future unravels. A healer princess forbidden to love by her goddess... After enduring an arranged marriage to a brutal Northumbrian warlord, Orabel wants nothing more to do with politics. Now, she will follow her true destiny and pledge her life to her beloved goddess. But when fate thrusts Scots warrior Ross MacIntosh into her life, her conviction falters. How can she feel anything but contempt for a man whose king is responsible for the death of her royal father? A political marriage that could shatter everything they cherish... Compelled to wed to prevent bloodshed blighting their land, trust is a fragile illusion. But with a vengeful goddess demanding restitution, Ross will need more than Orabel’s healing skills to mend the rift that threatens to tear her from his arms forever. novel, historical, medieval romance, Scottish Romance, Highlander Romance, Ancient Times romance, fantasy, Historical fantasy romance, magical realism, magical realism romance, magical realism historical romance, aristocracy, royalty, prince, princess, clans, kilts, forbidden love, love, romance, series book, adult, kings and queens, king, queen, battle, warriors, protectors, romance, epic, suspense and intrigue, action and adventure, historical romance book, romance book, historical book, interracial romance, Scottish hero, based on a true story, book, historical romance, scottish romance, 9th century Scottish historical romance, travel adventure, romance books , ebooks, romance books full novel, romance, romance books full novel standalone, romance books to read and download, romantic novels, books to read and download, historical romance books, historical romance ebooks, magical realism, medieval romance books, medieval romance. Scottish romance, Celtic goddesses, Bride, Cailleach enemies to lovers, highlanders, marriage of convenience, wounded hero, forced proximity

A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son, These Few Precious Days, and The Day Diana Died. One has been famous longer than anyone on the planet—a dutiful daughter, a frustrated mother, a doting grandmother, a steel-willed taskmaster, a wily stateswoman, an enduring symbol of an institution that has lasted a thousand years, and a global icon who has not only been an eyewitness to history but a part of it. One is the great-granddaughter of a King’s mistress and one of the most famous “other women” of the modern age—a woman who somehow survived a firestorm of scorn to ultimately marry the love of her life, and in the process replace her arch rival, one of the most beloved figures of the twentieth century. One is a beautiful commoner, the university-educated daughter of a flight attendant-turned-millionaire entrepreneur, a fashion scion the equal of her adored mother-in-law, and the first woman since King George V’s wife, Queen Mary, to lay claim to being the daughter-in-law of one future king, the wife another, and the mother of yet another. Game of Crowns is an in-depth and exquisitely researched exploration of the lives of these three remarkable women and the striking and sometimes subtle ways in which their lives intersect and intertwine. Examining their surprising similarities and stark differences, Andersen travels beyond the royal palace walls to illustrate who these three women really are today—and how they will directly reshape the landscape of the monarchy.

This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Ikhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimate authority amongst his political successors. Yet Chinggis Khan's legacy was interpreted differently by the various factions within his army. In the years after his death, two distinct political traditions emerged within the Mongol Empire, the collegial and the patrimonialist. Each of these streams represented the economic and political interests of different groups within the Mongol Empire, respectively, the military aristocracy and the central government. The supporters of both streams claimed to adhere to the ideal of Chinggisid rule, but their different statuses within the Mongol community led them to hold divergent views of what constituted legitimate political authority. Michael Hope's study details the origin of, and the differences between, these two streams of tradition; analyzing the role that these streams played in the political development of the Mongol Empire and the lkhanate; and assessing the role that ideological tension between the two streams played in the events leading up to the division of the Ilkhanate. Hope demonstrates that the policy and identity of both the Early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate were defined by the conflict between these competing streams of Chinggisid authority.

An upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis. A masterful and witty social history of five centuries of royal life, Behind the Throne offers a grand tour of England's grandest households.

In Transylvania in the Second Half of the Thirteenth Century Tudor Salagean describes the rise of Regnum Transilvanum, a historical link between the early medieval regnum Erdewel of duke Gyula and the early modern Principality of Transylvania.