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The Royal Diaries

Victoria

Cleopatra, daughter of the Nile

While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Eqypt some day.

Sondok: Princess of the Moon and Stars

In a series of messages placed in her grandmother's ancestral jar, a sixth-century princess and future ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla vents her frustration at not being permitted to study astronomy because she is a girl.

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba

Presents the diary of thirteen-year-old, Nzingha, a sixteenth-century West African princess who loves to hunt and hopes to lead her kingdom one day against the invasion of the Portuguese slave traders.

Marie Antoinette-Princess of Versailles

In 1769, thirteen-year-old Maria Antoinette Josepha Johanna, daughter of Empress Maria Theresea, begins a journal chronicling her life at the Austrian court and her preparations for her future role as queen of France.

Elizabeth I

In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.

Elizabeth I

In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.

Victoria

Elisabeth

The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.

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