Biography: Royalty

NOW REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE CORONATION 'To Charles, being monarch has nothing to do with power - he believes his role is to lead. It is ...

A beautiful gift for those with a fashionable eye Long before Dianas revenge dress took the world by storm or Princess Annes sunglasses w...

This is the story of a crucial year in the history of England, brimming with great political and social upheaval: the year 1603. 1603 was a time o...

The lives of Tudor women often offer faint but fascinating footnotes on the pages of history. The life of Catherine or Katryn as her husband would...

'Beaufort chronicles his unusual and rarified world with flashes of Wodehousian genius'. --- Jools Holland'So funny ... bristling with glamorous bu...

Langley ... understands how to excite people about the past more so, perhaps, than most academics -- THE NEW YORK TIMES'Philippa Langley has done ...

Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwine...

'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court hi...

A critical examination of the life and legacy of Charles IV. Charles IV, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor, has been called one of the most le...

Ancient Egypt is one of the great wellsprings of human civilization, first developing around the city of Memphis on the Nile River in the fourth mi...

For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady p...

According to legend, Romulus was born to a Vestal Virgin and left for dead as an infant near the Tiber River. His life nearly ended as quickly as i...

Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackOn Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of No...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackRichard II (1377-99) came to the throne ...

When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English...

His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh: irascible, controversial, outspoken, forthright and funny; the Gaffer, the Prince of Polit...

Savant Singh (16941764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing ...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, b...

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackIf Ethelred was notoriously 'Unready' an...

TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Teleg...

Few British monarchs have fit the time, the tone or the energy of an era quite the way Queen Victoria mastered her reign. From her ascension to t...

Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind Englands most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn.From the field...

Jane Seymour is the wife of Henry VIII we know the least about, often written off as 'Plain Jane'. Queen of England for just seventeen months, dur...

As the daughter and cousin of queens and the granddaughter and niece of kings, Lady Margaret Douglas was an integral part of the Tudor royal dynast...

'Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the wor...