Biography: Royalty

'The Firm', as the royal family styles itself, judged by real corporate standards, is a mess. Any consultants called in from outside to scrutinise ...

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Aethelred the Unready of the House of Wessex. The family was exiled to Normandy when the Danish invaded En...

Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeares hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunder...

Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind Englands greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she ha...

In 1533, Katherine Willoughby married Charles Brandon, Henry VIIIs closest friend. She would go on to serve at the court of every Tudor monarch exc...

Pitt Minion Bibles are notable for their synthesis of function and style and have been a feature of the Cambridge list for many decades. In the cur...

Although they were not subjected to the intense media scrutiny that our Royals are today, two Princes of Wales and two namesakes have appeared and ...

'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern Eur...

The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly aut...

The Royals say they can do without many things, but not their animals. They are suspicious of practically everyone outside their own family, so the...

A lively, authoritative and revealing portrait of the Queen's life and work through the eyes of those who've known her and worked with her over the...

With the world watching, Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge, third in line of succession to the throne, was born on 22nd July 2013. The nex...