Space Princess Maggie

Space Princess Maggie
Title Space Princess Maggie PDF eBook
Author J. D. Frey
Publisher
Total Pages 48
Release 2018-11-30
Genre
ISBN 9780692043882

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Put on your space helmet and adventure through the universe with Space Princess Maggie and her robot navigator KX505.

Ma'am Darling

Ma'am Darling
Title Ma'am Darling PDF eBook
Author Craig Brown
Publisher Fourth Estate
Total Pages 432
Release 2018-06-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780008203634

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A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR * A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR * A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An original, memorable and substantial achievement' TLS'A masterpiece' Mail on Sunday'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' ObserverShe made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Andy Warhol photographed her. Jack Nicholson offered her cocaine. Gore Vidal revered her. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. Dudley Moore propositioned her. Francis Bacon heckled her. Peter Sellers was in love with her. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. To her friends, she was witty and regal. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now ... Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny; also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. Brown has managed to ingest huge numbers of royal books and documents without losing either his judgment or his sanity. He adores the spectacle of human vanity' Julian Barnes, Guardian

Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret
Title Princess Margaret PDF eBook
Author Theo Aronson
Publisher Lume Books
Total Pages 326
Release 2020-11-12
Genre
ISBN 9781839012624

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Was Princess Margaret a royal rebel or the victim of an unfulfilling station? Whatever conclusion we draw, she remains arguably the most interesting member of the British royal family. As second in line to the throne for many years, Margaret was born with every possible advantage - beauty, vivacity, intelligence, wealth and position. Yet her nature, as one intimate has put it, "was to make everything go wrong." She has been described as tragic, unresolved, a royal maverick, a woman of conflict, a princess without a cause. Her private life has been racked by scandal; it has been a catalogue of unhappy, unfulfilled and unsuitable relationships. Her many good points have been submerged in an avalanche of criticism. Dauntingly royal yet defiantly unorthodox, Princess Margaret has spent the greater part of her life torn between meeting the exacting standards of the monarchy and flouting its long-established conventions. Princess Margaret: A Biography is the first detailed, in-depth study of this controversial figure, written by a respected royal biographer.

The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret

The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret
Title The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret PDF eBook
Author Karen Dolby
Publisher Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages 157
Release 2018-05-17
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1782439595

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Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind closed doors.

Detective Dot

Detective Dot
Title Detective Dot PDF eBook
Author Sophie Deen
Publisher eBook Partnership
Total Pages 197
Release 2016-10-25
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1912022540

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Nine-year-old tech whizz Detective Dot has a dangerous new mission from the Children's Intelligence Agency - investigate teenage trillionaire Shelly Belly. Why are all her inventions so cheap, and where does she make them? Dot's going to have to use all her coding skills, cunning and gadgets to crack the case.

Princess Margaret Hospital

Princess Margaret Hospital
Title Princess Margaret Hospital PDF eBook
Author Harold Alexander Munnings Jr.
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages 221
Release 2009-12-30
Genre History
ISBN 1462816983

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In 1965, the Yarmouth Castle, a cruise ship that was laden with American tourists, burned and sank en route to Nassau. The rescue effort and the fight to save the many badly burned survivors was centered at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) in The Bahamas. The final toll of 90 lives lost made this one of the worst maritime disasters in North American history. The story of the Yarmouth Castle disaster is a part of the fabric of the story of PMH, a story that begins in the 1780s with the opening of the African Hospital in Nassau. We trace the evolution of the Poor House on Shirley Street into the Bahamas General Hospital, forerunner of the PMH. Along the way we describe a commission of inquiry into hospital corruption (1915), a disruptive doctors strike and even the murder of a hospital nurse on the private ward. We knew that our investigations were probing sensitive areas when officials had difficulty locating reports and photographs. Nevertheless, research trumped resistance. We interviewed pioneers and disaster survivors, studied documents in the National Archives of the Bahamas, the Supreme Court registry, the Ministry of Health and even the library of the United States Coast Guard. Princess Margaret Hospital is much more than a sleepy account of the construction of an old hospital. It is a story of disaster, recovery, survival, philanthropy and genius.

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Title Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret PDF eBook
Author Craig Brown
Publisher
Total Pages 433
Release 2018-08-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374906041

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"Originally published in 2017 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Great Britain, as Ma'am darling: 99 glimpses of Princess Margaret"--Copyright page.