Biography: Royalty

Queen Elizabeth Is reign is amongst the most exciting and fascinating of any period of English history. She was a glamourous queen who ruled a vibr...

Mary Tudors childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry ...

When the thirteen year old Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York, married King James IV of Scotland in a magn...

An intensely moving account of George IIIs doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunn...

King John ruled England for seventeen and a half years, yet his entire reign is usually reduced to one image: of the villainous monarch outmanoeuvr...

Inspector Ken Wharfe, the first royalty protection officer to publish a memoir, was a crucial figure in the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, for n...

What the Queen Said to Me... is a collection of anecdotal stories by people who have met and spoken to The Queen. The stories are a small glimpse o...

How does the machinery of government respond when a King steps out of line? The relationship between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson created a cons...

From disastrous beginnings after he took the throne of Scotland, having murdered a powerful rival, Robert I became a military leader of consummate ...

We are honoured to announce the re-release of the first ever Pitkin title, published by Mr Pitkin in 1947 to celebrate the magical wedding day of P...

As the longest serving royal consort in British history (1921-2021), this fully-illustrated guide celebrates Prince Philips remarkable contribution...

The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jan...

Arthur's tremendous career has led to his becoming the most familiar face on the royal circuit and the respect he shows his subjects means that his...

A gorgeously sumptuous poster featuring the family tree of the Kings and Queens of England from Egbert 829-839 to our Queen, Elizabeth II. This po...

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...

Inexploring Royal dynamics, Inheritance sheds light on problems found in any familyOn its first publication in the 1990s, Dennis Friedman''s Inh...

Did you know the Queen loves pigeon racing? Did you know Elizabeth served with the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) as a mechanic during World W...

In 1936, the monarchy faced the greatest threats to its survival in the modern era the crisis of abdication and the menace of Nazism. The fate of ...

Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to pr...