The Royal Houses of Europe

[Sarai_Porretta]

Just got the e-mail below from Gilbert's Royal Books. He was supposed to attach a price list/order form but I didn't get it. Are these books mainly text and family trees or do they have a fair number of photos as well?

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"Gilbert's Royal Books is pleased to offer THE ROYAL HOUSES OF EUROPE by Jacques Arnold (Published by Patricia Arnold in Great Britain). This series of 13 books offer the most complete family trees of many of the Royal Houses of Europe currently in print. The two newest volumes include the Hohenzollern Dynasty (in 2 volumes) and the Romanov Dynasty. All volumes include commentaries , a detailed Preface, and are cross-referenced and indexed. Each book is professionally printed on quality paper, coil-bound with heavy duty cover and measures 12" x 8" in size.

These books usually retail for £38.00 each. The publisher is offering a special discount for clients of Gilbert's Royal Books. They are making available copies of the books at a discount of 21% before postage costs. A greater discount is offered to those who purchase more than one volume simultaneously. Details about each volume can be found below.

You may place your order through Gilbert's Royal Books via telephone, email or mail (for your convenience, an order form has been attached with this email as a PDF
file) . We will submit all orders to Patricia Arnold who will despatch your order immediately by air mail from Britain.

THE ROYAL HOUSES OF EUROPE

Volumes in this series:

GREAT BRITAIN Volume 1: The Family of H.M. Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria, the British Monarch who dominated the
nineteenth century, has left an ever expanding family
of descendants, now numbering more than 1230 including
spouses, and stretching to eight generations.  It has
expanded to include most of the Royal Families of
Europe. For the first time a short narrative on each
family group is included.  This Master Volume extends
to 214 pages, the book is cross referenced, and
contains a detailed index. 3rd Edition.    © P.
Arnold, 2003   ISBN 0-9544234-0-2

GREAT BRITAIN Volume 2: The Families of the British
Consorts. 

This volume records the family trees of the consorts
of the British Sovereigns of the twentieth century and
their heirs, Spencer, Greece, Bowes-Lyon, Teck and
Denmark, all being common ancestors of the eventual
heir to the throne, Prince William of Wales.  A new
section now covers the family of the new consort,
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The book traces a wide
range of European Royal, and British noble and
commoner families. Extending to 213 pages, the book
has an informative preface, and is cross referenced
both within itself, and to Volume 1, and each section
contains a detailed index.  4th edition.    © P.
Arnold, 2006    ISBN 0-9551167-7-5

GREAT BRITAIN Volume 3:  The Descendants of King
George III  including the Fitz-Clarence family.

This volume covers the Descendants of King George III,
excluding those covered in Volume 1, through nine
generations.  The volume has an additional large
section on the descendants of the King’s third son,
William Duke of Clarence, who had a family of ten
children with the actress Dorothy Bland, the famous
“Mrs. Jordan”, before becoming King William IV. On
both sides of the blanket, these families are
predominantly British, extending through the peerage
and beyond. 160 pages.  1st edition.   © P. Arnold,
2004    ISBN 0-9544-234-3-7

GREAT BRITAIN Volume 4:  The Descendants of King
George II, the Collateral lines.

This volume covers the lines descended from King
George II and his son Frederick, Prince of Wales,
excluding those covered by earlier volumes.  It covers
a multitude of European Royal Houses - the earlier
generations of Denmark, Sweden and Prussia, the full
lines of the Houses of the Netherlands, Belgium,
Luxembourg and Bulgaria, and a multiplicity of
Habsburg, Bourbon, Romanov, and lesser German and
Austrian princes and nobles. 383 pages.  1st edition.
© P. Arnold, 2006   ISBN 0-9551167-2-4

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GREAT BRITAIN Volume 5:  The Descendants of King
George I, and the Stuart - Hanover connection.

This volume covers the lines descended from King
George I, excluding those covered by earlier volumes.
It covers a multitude of European Royal Houses - the
earlier generations of Prussia Russia, Brunswick and
Württemberg, the full lines of Orleans-Bourbon of
France and Radziwill of Poland,  and many Russian,
Polish, Austrian, German and Italian Houses.. A
section details the Stuart - Hanover connection,
illustrating the succession from Queen Anne to George
I.         182 pages.  1st edition.    © P. Arnold,
2006   ISBN 0-9551167-5-9

SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA

The most prolific family of the Saxon duchies ruled
the Coburg and Gotha Duchies until 1918.  It sent its
princes to take forward the British and Portuguese
Royal Houses, and to establish monarchies in Belgium
and Bulgaria.  Its own succession passed through the
British Royal family in the final decade of the
nineteenth century.   Its descendants include the last
Habsburg Emperor, and the Pretender to the Bourbon
throne of France, and a host of European royal and
noble families. This volume details the complex
inter-relations, descended from the patriarch Duke
Franz, whose son relinquished the Saalfeld Duchy to
gain Gotha in 1826.  Extending to 264 pages, the book
is cross referenced within itself and to the British
master volume. 3rd edition.    © P. Arnold, 2006 
ISBN 0-9551167-1-1

The BENELUX MONARCHIES:   The Netherlands     Belgium
  Luxembourg

These three reigning monarchies are covered by this
volume, which traces the House of Orange- Nassau from
Willem IV, Prince of Orange, born 1711, to the present
day Queen of the Netherlands.  It also covers Belgium,
from King Leopold I, whose Saxe-Coburg ancestry is
traced in the respective volume, to the current King
Albert II.  The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is covered
from the first independent Grand Duke, Adolphus, whose
Nassau-Weilburg ancestry is traced in the Netherlands
section of this volume, to the current sovereign,
Grand Duke Henri.  In all three cases, a host of other
related European Royal Houses are covered - including
Habsburg, Bourbon, Romanov, Wittelsbach, and other
German, Austrian and Italian houses.  346 pages.   2nd
edition.   © P. Arnold, 2006   ISBN 0-9551167-6-7

The SCANDINAVIAN MONARCHIES:  Denmark  Sweden  Norway

These three reigning monarchies are covered by this
volume, which traces the Danish House of
Holstein-Glücksburg from Christian IX to the present
day Queen of Denmark.  It also covers the Swedish
House of Bernadotte since its inception, and the
Kingdom of Norway from its re-establishment in 1905.
The Swedish Vasa dynasty from King Adolphus Frederik,
and the earlier Danish Kings from King Frederik V, are
traced through to the present day.  Included are the
two Schleswig-Holstein Duchies, and the related houses
of Great Britain, Russia and Prussia, and most of the
German protestant houses.  228 pages.              2nd
edition.     © P. Arnold, 2007   ISBN 0-9551167-9-1

The BALKAN and ITALIAN MONARCHIES: Greece, Roumania,
Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania,   
Italy, Sardinia, Two Sicilies, Tuscany, Parma and
Modena.

The six former monarchies of the Balkans, Greece,
Roumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia/Serbia, Montenegro and
Albania are covered.  The first three from the
establishment of their new dynasties, and the latter
three from their indigenous establishment as Kingdoms.
 The monarchy of unified Italy is covered from its
establishment, together with its five predecessor
monarchies – Sardinia, Two Sicilies, Tuscany, Parma
and Modena.  The complex inter-weaving of these Houses
is shown in the finest detail.  194 pages. 
1st edition.     © P. Arnold, 2005   ISBN
0-9551167-0-8

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The IBERIAN MONARCHIES:  Spain, Portugal and Brazil.

    The reigning Borbón House of Spain, together with
the former reigning Bragança House of Portugal, and
its off-shoot the former reigning Imperial House of
Brazil, are covered in this volume.  The rival Carlist
line of Spain is traced, as well as the Portuguese
Miguelist line.  The Spanish off-shoot House of the
Two Sicilies is also covered in full.  The Brazilian
Orléans e Bragança dynasty, with its two claimants is
detailed. Many related royal and noble houses both of
Spain and Portugal (including the Dukedom of Loulé),
and of Italy, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria and Poland
are also included.      216 pages.   1st edition.    ©
P. Arnold, 2006   ISBN 0-9551167-4-0

The ROMANOV Dynasty of RUSSIA: The Descendants of
Catherine The Great

The entire Romanov dynasty to the current day is
covered in this volume, together with its morganatic
lines, including Belevsky, Yourievsky, Paley and
Torby, and the Russian Oldenburg and Leuchtenberg
families, and many other related European Royal Houses
and Russian noble families.  197 pages.   1st edition.
   © P. Arnold, 2007   ISBN 0-9551167-8-3

The HOHENZOLLERN Dynasty of PRUSSIA - 2 volumes:  The
Descendants of King Friedrich Wilhelm I.
 
This two-volume work shows the Hohenzollern Dynasty of
Prussia, from King Friedrich Wilhelm I, born in 1688,
down through eleven generations to the current Head of
the House, Prince Georg Friedrich.  In addition to all
members of the Prussian Royal House for more than
three hundred years, it covers all the descendants,
whom, through inter-marriage, include the Habsburg and
Romanov Heirs, both the Orleans-Bourbon and Bonaparte
Heirs of France, all the Reigning Royal Monarchs of
Europe, the other former Balkan and German Kings, and
the Sovereign Grand Dukes, Dukes and Princes of the
German Empire, with few exceptions, and many of the
Mediatised Princes, and also the Princes Radziwill and
Biron von Kurland.  It also includes many German,
Austrian, Bohemian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian,
British, French and Belgian noble houses.  Due to
frequent marriage of cousins, this work has a unique
system of cross-referencing, enabling the  tracing of
multiple lines of descent.  The books cover 532 pages
of family trees, extending for up to 14 generations,
and  include 8,099 descendants and their spouses
(4,146 males and 3,953 females) and record 2,742
marriages, The index details 2,084 family surnames and
titles mentioned in these books.  549 pages.  1st
edition.  © P. Arnold, 2007                 ISBN
978-0-9555094-1-4   ISBN 978-0-9555094-2-1

[Margarita Markovna]

Ooh, these look good! I look forward to learning more about them!

[Marlene]

A friend of mine bought the Victoria book - and  sent it back, saying there was a far better book on  Victoria's descendants with far more current  and complete information.  The Arnolds, I have been told, don't do a lot of detailed genealogical research.  Don't waste your money.

[Alixz]

Marlene - I have your books, too 

[Marlene]

Marlene - I have your books, too 

Thanks.  I am not perfect, but trust me when I say: don't waste your money. 

[Alixz]

Whoops 

What I meant is, like your friend, I have your books too. 

I don't have any of these new books.  Actually I am interested in some of the families written about in these new books only in a peripheral way as they pertain to my main research.

I have Queen Victoria's Descendants and the companion volume.  I found them both to be very professional and very enlightening 

[Marlene]

I have seen several of Arnolds' works - and they cobble together from the internet, etc., for their information -- no real hard research ....the same stuff you can get for free from the Online Gotha.

Whoops 

What I meant is, like your friend, I have your books too. 

I don't have any of these new books.  Actually I am interested in some of the families written about in these new books only in a peripheral way as they pertain to my main research.

I have Queen Victoria's Descendants and the companion volume.  I found them both to be very professional and very enlightening 

[Jay]

Thanks for the heads up! I was going to check them out. I still might head over to the site. I haven't visited it in awhile.