Biography: Royalty

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon...

The royal family is the original Coronation Street - a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have beco...

For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. A stone’s thr...

They’re not like us, the royal family. Or are they? We simply don’t know and we’re all desperate to find out. This A-Z of royalty is the practical...

A lively new biography of Tutankhamun—published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb’s modern discovery   The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb ...

A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwa...

'Honest, insightful and vulnerable' Forbes'Compellingly artful... a blockbuster memoir' The New Yorker'The most insightful royal book in a generati...

Meghan and Harry The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims presents the reader with a strikingly forthright analysis of what happens when a vulnerable...

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived t...

Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and f...

'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court hi...

This “engrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daugh...

A life of Matilda—empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages  “[Matilda] will attract a growing a...

A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen“Presents [Marie-Antoinette] as much more than a sy...

A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy  “A lucid and persuasive reinte...

A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again   “This colorful biography ...

In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of...