The Royal Diaries — Multiple Authors

• Jun-1999
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November 10, 1544 I have been living with this constant fear of exile now for two days. So far I have heard nothing. Plans seem to proceed as normal for our move to Ashridge. This palace, too, is becoming quite filthy, what with all the banqueting a...

• Sep-1999
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3 JANUARIUS, MORNING I could feel my insides shaking. Would this sister try to poison me? Yes, I believe so. As for my other older sister, Berenice -- never! She and I adore each other even though I am eight years younger. I took the cup and raised...

• Apr-2000
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June 13, 1769 It has come at last -- the marriage proposal! King Louis XV's personal envoys arrived this morning. I was called immediately to Mama's summer house, The Gloriette, where she works on the hottest days. I did not know what I was being ca...

• Jul-2000
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Segovia -- 12th of April 1466 After Mass this morning, I climbed the narrow, winding stone steps to a window high in one of the castle turrets. I often come up here to see what lies beyond my prison. Segovia is surrounded by four thick walls, each w...

• Sep-2000
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25 Apri1 1914 -- Livadia Papa took us on another long walk. Mama and Alexei joined us later for a picnic, although Mama was feeling weak and needed her wheelchair. An odd thing happened. My sisters and I were picking wildflowers in a meadow, and Al...

• Sep-2000
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First Month of Mbangala: The Season When the Grass is Burned So here I am in the garden, writing... if these words have magic, then I will use them to plot and plan a way to drive the Portuguese from our land. And maybe one day my pages will tell ot...

• Apr-2001
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May 6, 1889 At Iolani Palace, Father and I met with Papa Moi and Mama Moi in the throne room. Papa Moi was solemn, as he reminded me that it will be my responsibility to do as well as possible, and in that way, further the hopes of our nation. I was...

• Sep-2001
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2nd Month, 3rd Day ...There was once a time when the Chinese could just make up stories and write them down. They didn't have to be afraid of enemies attacking. They could make gardens instead of forts. They could walk out at night without any weap...

• Nov-2001
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29 MAY ...I had to kiss His Majesty's hand. Really, one kisses the air over his hand, and that's a good thing, for he's so glistening with lotions and powders to cover the liver spots on his skin, which he hates... Aunt Soap says he was a beautiful...

• Apr-2002
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JULY 12, 1554 I think hawking is one of the things that Francis and I do so well together. Our instincts combined with those of the birds seem to fit perfectly when we are in the field. We speak very little to one another but silently give the calls...

• Jun-2002
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10th day of the 1st moon, 17th year of King Chinp'yong It is the Hour of the Pig when the whole palace is settling down to sleep and only the watchmen and astronomers are awake. I have not had a chance during the festival season to sit at my favorit...

• Sep-2002
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Experience the sumptuous wealth and the unforgettable drama within the Moghul Dynasty of seventeenth-century India through Newbery Honor- author Kathryn Lasky's diary of Princess Jahanara.

In the 1600s, the Moghul emperors of India were among ...

• Nov-2002
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June 24th Such excitement... the horsemen announced travelers, and Count Geoffrey of Anjou arrived an hour later with some of his chevaliers. Petra and I peered from the stairs down to the great hall and saw the visitors. I decided we must put on ou...

• Apr-2003
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Saturday. September 24, 1853 Finding myself the most important person in the whole household and the constant center of attention is most unnerving and disturbing. I wish it were not so, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it. I ...

• May-2003
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August 3, 1638 Papa Matthiae arrived last evening, accompanied by Jacob Henrik Elbfas, the court painter. I feared this meant I should have to pose for another official portrait. They dress you in wretchedly uncomfortable gowns and make you stand pe...

• Aug-2003
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NEEPUNNA KEESWOSH MOON WHEN CORN IS RIPE [LATE AUGUST, 1653] METTAPOISET He [Father] laid his hand gently on my shoulder and told me that if I, Weetamoo, am to become sachem of us Pocassets after him, and prove a good leader, I must learn to walk mo...

• Apr-2004
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4.15.18.2.11 4 CHUEN 14 MOL [JULY 7] LAKAMHA, BACAL HIGHLAND I thought, now that I leave Lakamha, I may never return. I may never see my family again. Well, perhaps I will see some of them. But I will be like the water that comes down from a spring...

• Sep-2004
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Intrigue and danger increase as Princess Kazunomiya's once-sheltered life in nineteenth-century Japan changes, in Newbery Honor author Kathryn Lasky's latest addition to THE ROYAL DIARIES series.

Kazunomiya, along with her royal family, is tho...

• Apr-2005
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Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.

With her signature narrative grace, Edwidg...

• Dec-2005
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Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the m...