Biography: Royalty

'The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' Lynn Barber, Daily TelegraphWhen Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daught...

For years designer India Hicks has been sharing anecdotes about the life of her mother, Lady Pamela Hicks, or Lady P, as she is affectionately know...

**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'...

Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann Macmillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.From Alfred th...

This souvenir biography explores the early years of a playful, kind-hearted and inquisitive child who went on to make a significant contribution to...

James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homos...

Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen is considered to be one of the most tragic characters in English history. In July 1553 when King Edward VI died ...

From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to ...

Elizabeth I is renowned for the hugely successful reign that has led her to be considered one of the most celebrated monarchs in English history. B...

In Creating the Empress, Vera Proskurina examines the interaction between power and poetry in creating the imperial image of Catherine the Great, p...

The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history but who now takes centr...

When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish hi...

The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victorias Golden ...

James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relation...

A detailed look at the ambition and artistic legacy of Emperor Maximilian I and his passion for armor and chivalry Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I ...

This revelatory book shows how the influential and controversial Empress Dowager Cixi used art and architecture to establish her authority   Empres...

This latest book from John Van der Kiste, the eminent historian of European royalty, is an account of Queen Victoria's personal and political relat...

A prominent scholar explores King Arthurs historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century A...

An entirely original account of Victorias relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1...

Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of consti...

Daughter, Wife, Princess, Widow and Queen: Anne Neville had many faces. Shakespeare presents her to us as a woman consumed with rage, bitterness a...

William and Mary, Britains most mysterious monarchs, were married for reasons of dynastic convenience. Their union gradually developed into a happy...

In the Fall of 1947, an eighty-four-year-old woman receives an extraordinary invitation. Though much that happened was a lifetime ago and in a diff...

Barbara Villiers was a woman so beautiful, so magnetic and so sexually attractive that she captured the hearts of many in Stuart-era Britain. Her b...

The story of King Henry VIII, a man who married six times only to execute two of those wives, is part of Great Britains national and international ...

An engaging story The SpectatorGeneva, April 1987. The staid Swiss town is awash with limousines, journalists and minor European aristocracy. All ...

Discover who we are and how we got here this holiday season in comedian David Mitchell's Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a though...