Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy, Random House, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7011-8290-8 (US title for The Popes: A History) a b "John Julius Norwich:: Introduction". www.johnjuliusnorwich.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2016 . Retrieved 10 March 2018. The Normans in the South and The Kingdom in the Sun, on Norman Sicily, later republished as The Normans in Sicily, Penguin, 1992 (The Normans in the South, 1016–1130; originally published:- Harlow:Longman,1967—The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130–1194; originally published:- Harlow:Longman, 1970) ISBN 978-0-14-015212-8 June 2008 (4 June 2008). " "John Julius Norwich:'Deep down, I'm shallow. I really am'", The Telegraph, 04 Jun 2008". Telegraph.co.uk . Retrieved 13 March 2020. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link) Yardley, Jonathan. "John Julius Norwich's memoir, 'Trying to Please', reviewed by Jonathan Yardley", The Washington Post, 5 September 2010". Washingtonpost.com. 5 September 2010 . Retrieved 13 March 2020.

The monologue is performed by the reading out of letters written by Emily Wilbraham to her lover Edward. Each day for twelve days, Edward sends her one of the gifts mentioned in "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol and Emily responds with a letter for each day. The gifts eventually cause a breakdown in their relationship, with Emily's house and gardens being ruined by all the birds, animals, and personnel that Edward sends. [3] For the final letter, after Edward has sent members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to her, [2] Emily's solicitor G. Creep writes to inform Edward that Emily is seeking an injunction against him for harassment and would be seeking to return all the animals that were sent. A Visit from St. Nicholas" (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", 1823) attributed to Clement Clarke Moore John Julius Norwich:: Television". John Julius Norwich. 2013. Archived from the original on 3 November 2018 . Retrieved 9 August 2020. Parker, Olivia (25 March 2014). "My perfect weekend: John Julius Norwich, historian and writer". Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 13 June 2018.Norwich worked extensively in radio and television. He was host of the BBC radio panel game My Word! for four years (1978–82) and also a regional contestant on Round Britain Quiz. He wrote and presented some 30 television documentaries, including The Fall of Constantinople, Napoleon's Hundred Days, Cortés and Montezuma, The Antiquities of Turkey, The Gates of Asia, Maximilian of Mexico, Toussaint l'Ouverture of Haiti, The Knights of Malta, Treasure Houses of Britain, and The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Zulu War. [18] Supplement to the London Gazette, 31st December 1992" (PDF). The London Gazette. p.4 . Retrieved 2 March 2022. Board of Trustees, Vice Presidents and Patrons | Share Community". www.sharecommunity.org.uk. 20 March 2014 . Retrieved 10 March 2018. Web of Stories-Life Stories of Remarkable People (19 June 2018). John Julius Norwich - Only trying to please. YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 . Retrieved 8 August 2020.

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Correspondence) (illustrated by Quentin Blake), Doubleday, 1998 (spoof of the old favourite carol, "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), ISBN 978-0-385-41028-1 Venice: a Traveller's Companion (an anthology compiled by Lord Norwich), Constable, 1990, ISBN 978-0-09-467550-6The book covers tales which demonstrate all these aspects – and more. They include poems, letters, extracts from novels, recipes, memoirs and present lists. They are all very different in style and message, from the familiar to the unfamiliar. It is a little difficult to read the book straight through, because of these differing styles. It is more a book to open at random and nibble a small portion at a time! Venice in Peril — Trustees". Archived from the original on 25 February 2020 . Retrieved 20 December 2015. If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'

This is absolutely my favourite festive book ever. I’m sure I can’t be the only person who has ever thought how inconvenient the gifts in the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ would actually be to receive. In fact, with the exception of the five gold rings, I would be thoroughly peeved if my true love gave me any of those things. In this marvellous little book, John Julius Norwich takes the song to its logical conclusion and, in a series of increasingly frosty letters from Emily to her true love Edward, examines exactly how someone might react if they were to receive nine ladies dancing. Le Père Martin" (1888) by Ruben Saillens and unwittingly plagiarized as " Papa Panov's Special Christmas" by Leo Tolstoy Paradise of Cities, Venice and its Nineteenth-century Visitors, Viking/Penguin, 2003, ISBN 978-0-670-89401-7Web of Stories-Life Stories of Remarkable People (19 June 2018). John Julius Norwich - Early school days. YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 . Retrieved 8 August 2020. Norwich's first wife was Anne Frances May Clifford, daughter of the Hon. Sir Bede Clifford; they had one daughter, the Hon. Artemis Cooper, a historian, and a son, the Hon. Jason Charles Duff Bede Cooper, an architect. [26] After their divorce, Norwich married his second wife, the Hon. Mary (Makins) Philipps, daughter of The 1st Baron Sherfield. [27]

Web of Stories-Life Stories of Remarkable People (19 June 2018). John Julius Norwich - Lifting a lift on a cruiser. YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021 . Retrieved 8 August 2020. A History of Venice, Knopf, 1982 / Penguin, 1983 ISBN 978-0-679-72197-0, single-volume combined edition Rose before six to prayer and meditation. Ah, blessed God, how many in the mills and factories have risen at four, on this day even, to toil and suffering!" a b c Whyte, William (2022). "Cooper, John Julius, second Viscount Norwich (1929–2018), writer and broadcaster". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000380455. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) a b "John Julius Norwich obituary: writer and broadcaster keen to share his many passions". The Guardian. 1 June 2018 . Retrieved 19 June 2018.

Norwich was born at the Alfred House Nursing Home on Portland Place in Marylebone, London, on 15 September 1929. [4] He was the son of the Conservative politician and diplomat Duff Cooper, later Viscount Norwich, and of Lady Diana Manners, a celebrated beauty and society figure. [5] He was given the name "Julius" in part because he was born by caesarean section. [6] Such was his mother's fame as an actress and beauty that the birth attracted a crowd outside the nursing home and hundreds of letters of congratulations. [4] Through his father, he was descended from King William IV and his mistress Dorothea Jordan. [7] The Italian World: History, Art and the Genius of a People (editor), Thames & Hudson, 1983, ISBN 978-0-500-25088-4 Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe, John Murray, 2016, ISBN 978-1-47363-295-0