Biography: Royalty

As Meghan Markle once said: ''With fame comes opportunity, but it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on the glass ...

Queen Elizabeth II is a force of stability in a turbulent, changing world. Revered for her calm dignity and sense of duty, the queen has rarely pu...

In many respects Dudley was the most significant figure of his age. As a great impresario, he showed Elizabeth off to her people to glittering effe...

The names of few medieval monarchs and their queens are better known than Eleanor of Aquitaine, uniquely queen of France and queen of England, and ...

When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privi...

Sophia, Electress of Hanover, was born to greatness. Granddaughter of James I and mother to George I, she was perhaps the finest queen that Britain...

At the age of twenty-one, the future Prince Philip wrote to a relative: 'I know you will never think much of me. I am rude and unmannerly.' This af...

PRINCE HARRY, AUTHOR OF SPARE, IN HIS OWN WORDS - INCLUDING EXCLUSIVE ACCESS AND INTERVIEWSOnce a reckless rebel, now a respected role model, Princ...

In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist when Francis II became Emperor of Austria. 112 years later, the Habsburg empire collapsed after the ...

By the autumn of 1918 Germany was on the verge of starvation-the result of four years of war and blockade. Sailors led a revolt in Wilhelmshaven on...

Helene was a strong-willed princess, raised in France but closely connected with the court of Queen Victoria. After the premature end to a romance...

This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward ...

One of the most controversial royal figures of the twentieth century, Princess Margaret was admired as well as vilified for most of her adult life....

In this new book royal historian Lady Colin Campbell covers The Queen''s Marriage in intimate detail. Using her connections and impeccable sources ...

Unseen behind the throne, two sides of the royal bloodline competed for influence, and egregious family secrets had to be protected. Meanwhile, in ...

When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had con...

He seems perfection and I think that I have the prospect of very great happiness before me Victoria in a letter of 15 October 1839 One of the great...

Anne Boleyn is one of the most divisive figures in British history. Her love-match with Henry VIII and her subsequent execution at the Tower of Lon...

In public Diana was fêted wherever she went, greeted by adoring crowds and fawned over by the media. In private she craved anonymity, and it was Ke...