When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Duchess, formerly Lady Glencora Palliser, attempts to support her husband by hosting lavish parties at Gatherum Castle in Barsetshire, the family's largest country house, barely used until now. Palliser, initially unsure that he is fi...

THE story of Cleopatra is a story of crime. It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love. In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most complete and graphic fidelity in all its influences and effects; its uncontrollable impulses, its intoxicating joys, its reckless and mad career, and the dreadful remorse and ultimate despair and ruin in which it always and inevitably ends.

Cleopatra was by birth an Egyptian; by ancestry and descent s...

Koning Albert heeft een lang en gevuld leven geleid, maar over weinig vorsten zijn zoveel vage vermoedens en verzinsels neergepend. In dit boek bekijken de auteurs het leven van de zesde koning der Belgen met de ogen van vandaag. Waarom heeft koning Albert de keuzes gemaakt die hem lof maar ook kritiek opleverden?

De prins van Luik was nog jong en vooral wereldvreemd toen hij werd voorgesteld aan huwbare meisjes van zijn stand. Hij koos er de knapste, maar wellicht ook de vurigste uit: donna ...