Biography: Royalty

With unprecedented access to extensive and secret royal family archives, the author draws the first accurate portrait of Jordans remarkable King Hu...

A ROYAL ENGAGEMENT IS ANNOUNCED. At 10am on 27th November 2017, Clarence House announced the exciting news that Prince Harry is engaged to Meghan M...

No English king is more famous-or infamous! than Henry VIII, popularly celebrated as the formidable and arrogant figure portrayed by Hans Holbein t...

A major new biography of the Black Prince. 'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES. 'Pacy, vivid and extremely r...

Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse...

Babies are born every day, but only once or twice in a lifetime a child arrives who will inherit the throne. In the summer of 2013, the nation watc...

Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to w...

Following the dramatic announcement that Richard III's body had been discovered, past controversies have been matched by fresh disputes. Why is Ric...

After the Battle of Hastings, King Harolds tattoos were used to identify his body. Elizabeth of York was the model for the Queen in the first deck...

Did you know... William IV was wont to speak his mind and could sometimes lack tact, which is said to have inspired the nickname `Silly Billy'?...

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In...

Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generati...

With fabulous pictures of the young royal family, this book takes a look at William and Kate's life from their engagement to the lead up to the arr...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZEEdward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, ...

What constituted a secret or a scandal in times gone by? This entertaining title in this new series gives an overview of the times and attitudes to...

In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II will mark the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne, a diamond jubilee that this book, written by former BBC ...

'Lovely... delivers the warmest of glows' - Telegraph'Who wouldn't love this chocolate-box delight of insights and snapshots of The Queen...A treas...

This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major British...

''One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery ...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation. Tracy Borman In this grou...

George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murde...

The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soari...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Royal Book of the Year, 2021'Darkly compelling...hundreds of eye-popping details...Gripping ... damning por...

'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Dai...

Henry III is generally classed among the weakest and most incompetent of Englands medieval kings. Darren Baker tells a different story.- Michael Cl...

Discover the inspiring spiritual legacy of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Sharing a behind-the-scenes glimpse...

King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history. --The Wall Street Journal Charles I, often kn...

  Everyone's heard of Mary, Queen of Scots. She is famous for having terrible taste in husbands, rotting away in Elizabeth I's ...

Everybody knows that Cleopatra is the most famous of all of Egypt''s queens and that she had a nasty accident with a snake. But did you...