Biography: Royalty

We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins,...

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Among the papers found at S...

Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Among the papers found at S...

The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of...

An excellent new biography (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch-the most in...

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

Edward the Elder succeeded his father Alfred the Great to the kingdom of Wessex, but was largely overlooked by his contemporaries (at least in term...

You call me the little Queen, she told her uncle the King of the Belgians; my body is little, but my heart is not. Edith Sitwell''s endearin...

Before he fell in love with Wallis Simpson, Edward VIII had fallen in love with America. As a young Prince of Wales, Edward witnessed the birth of ...