David Baldwin

Royal Prayer (eBook, PDF)

A Surprising History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why did Bonnie Prince Charlie turn down the throne of America? How were Napoleon and Wellington related? Was the Tay Bridge disaster the result of a failed attempt to assassinate Karl Marx? David Baldwin uncovers some startling and fascinating facts in this survey of royal prayer through the ages, which ranges from Queen Hatchepsut of Ancient Egypt to Diana, Princess of Wales via George Washington and the ill-fated Russian Imperial Family. Culminating in the contributions made by The Queen and the Royal Family today, the author demonstrates that royal prayers can have immense consequence for the psyche of the nation as well as the individual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441166326
• Artikelnr.: 38303478

Autorenporträt

David Baldwin is Sergeant of the Vestry of HM Chapels Royal. He has previously served on the staff of Lambeth Palace Library, as Curator of Durham University Library, as a Virger at St Paul's Cathedral, and in the Armouries of HM Tower of London. He was deployed as a NATO Satellite Operator during the Baltic Cold War, was awarded his M.Litt for a study of Seventeenth Century Catholicism in The Queen's Chapel, and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He is the author of numerous monographs, including decryption of plays by the 16th century School of Night for the Thomas Harriott Seminar. He won the Prince of Wales's Perspectives Millennium Competition for his design of tidal-powered moving pavements for river embankments of major cities.