Deborah Cadbury

Louis-Charles, Duc de Normandie, enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe. Yet within five years he was to lose everything....

In Princes at War, Deborah Cadbury reveals evidence that the duke and duchess of Windsor colluded with Hitler to take back the British throne from Edward's younger brother....

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the palaces of Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations, and family tensions....

By 1931, Anna Essinger had read Mein Kampf and knew that Hitler’s world view was violent, utterly destructive, and that many of her pupils in her small progressive school in Herrlingen, Germany were in terrible danger....

Chocolate Wars tells the story of the great chocolatier dynasties, through the prism of the Cadburys....

King George V predicted that his son, Edward VIII, would destroy himself within a year of succeeding to the throne....

The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer....

Louis-Charles Bourbon enjoyed a charmed early childhood in the gilded palace of Versailles. At the age of four, he became the Dauphin, heir to the most powerful throne in Europe....

The story of two 19th-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs....

The School That Escaped the Nazis is the extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, who smuggled her school and its pupils from Nazi Germany to the safety of England....

Queen Victoria had over 30 surviving grandchildren, and to maintain and increase power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynastic marriages....