Biography: Royalty

More than just a single-minded warrior-king, Henry V comes to life in this fresh account as a gifted ruler acutely conscious of spiritual matters a...

There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was the second wife of Henry VIII, mother of Elizab...

The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serv...

Sometimes it takes just one strong woman to tame a pack of zealous men. Meet Margaret of Sicily.For five years during the twelfth century, Margaret...

For almost 350 years the Plantagenet family held the English throne longer than any dynasty in English history and yet its origins were in Anjou ...

Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the killer of her husband and father, before succu...

Anna was the last woman standing of Henry VIIIs wives and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Anna, Duchess of Cleve...

'Entertaining... Wilson is affectionate without being reverential.' Daisy Goodwin, The TimesIn this original and vibrant examination of the life an...

Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional ...

Hollman combines scrupulous research with spellbinding storytelling; The Queen and the Mistress will keep you turning the pages. - Sylvia Barbara S...

The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and his family. In July 1991, nine...

From one of Britain''s best selling historians, a sweeping and magisterial history of the extraordinary lives of five queens in England''s turbulen...

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ''This second volume of memoirs is as fascinating as the first....full of wit, joy, vivid vignettes and useful...

A beautiful pictorial souvenir commemorating the life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. From her birth in London in 1926 to the celebration of he...

An official BBC book that celebrates the life of Queen Elizabeth II through photographs, some rarely seen, drawn largely from archives of the BBC.T...

Long did she reign and peacefully may she rest: this beautiful and thoughtful tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates the life of a re...

A compelling new biography of Camilla, Queen Consort, that reveals how she transformed her role and established herself as one of the key members o...

Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...

Jane Parker, later Viscountess Rochford, was the sister-in-law of Anne Boleyn and was executed alongside Katherine Howard, yet she has remained in ...

In a world historically dominated by male rulers, the women who have sat on thrones of their own shine out brightly. Some queens and empresses were...

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived t...

A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull ...

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.Kings & Qu...

Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados, we look back...

The Countess of Albany (1886) is a biography by Vernon Lee. Published at the height of her career as a leading proponent of Aestheticism and schola...

We can hardly imagine a Britain without Elizabeth II on the throne. It seems to be the job she was born for. And yet for much of her early life the...

SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION ''The most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet'' The Financial Times Hugo Vickers is an acknowledged ...

Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, f...