Description NEW EDITION WITH IMPROVED LAYOUT AND MORE ILLUSTRATIONS. to get out there and find the lesser known palaces and learn more about their history.\' Review of Schloss in Royalty Digest Quarterly Journal. \'This book can be seen as an inspiration ...
Many of them are not well known outside Germany and visiting these wonderful buildings is a real treat.
The schl sser included range from fortified Castles of the middle ages, to grand palaces built in the 18th century in imitation of Louis XIV\'s Versailles, to stately homes from the turn of the 20th century.
It has more than 60 illustrations and 9 family trees.
The book is intended to be easy to read, light-hearted and entertaining.
The book charts these difficult years and their resurgence and use today as museums, hotels and public buildings.
Some were behind the iron curtain for 50 years.
As they lost their Royal families, many of the schl sser went into decline and became prisons, workhouses and other institutions.
The German Royal princes abdicated in 1918 at the end of World War I.
It also brings out two themes; the lottery of arranged dynastic marriages for Royal princesses, and the equally sad fate of their landless younger brothers.
The book looks at how the British Royal family is descended from the rulers of these German kingdoms and duchies.
With so many eligible princesses to choose from, Germany was the Royal marriage market for Europe, and German princesses married into all of Europe\'s Royal families.
The book brings these and other stories vividly to life.
It tells the colourful stories of some historical Royal characters connected with them; characters such as the mistress of the king who tried to blackmail him and was imprisoned for 49 years; the crown princess who ran away from her husband and six children with their tutor; and the insignificant princess who was passed on by her fianc to his brother but who ended up heiress to the throne of England.
This book is about visits to 25 of these German schl sser.
These have left their mark, not least in the numerous Castles and palaces that dot the German countryside.
The country was not unified until 1870, and before that there were hundreds of different kingdoms, duchies and principalities, each with their own reigning family.
Germany has a rich Royal history.
It is recommended to anyone who likes History or travelogues or who is interested in people\'s personal stories.
This book by Susan Symons visits 25 beautiful schl sser (the plural of schloss) in Germany and tells the compelling personal stories of the colourful royalty that lived in them.
Schloss is the German word for castle or palace.
Description NEW EDITION WITH IMPROVED LAYOUT AND MORE ILLUSTRATIONS
