Biography: Royalty

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...

Packed with fascinating anecdotes, sharp analysis and exclusive photographs by a celebrated royal photographer, this title reveals the secrets of P...

After years of extensive investigation, The Princess Diana Conspiracy confronts the question of whether Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, was murde...

Our dreams indicate what is going on in the deeper parts of our minds. And that was as true for the Princess of Wales as it is for anyone else. But...

Sir George Buc (1560-1622), one of the careful antiquarian scholars of the English Renaissance, is famous in literary history as Master of Revels u...

Explore 500 years of the British royal family and how their portrayal has developed throughout the ages through beautiful artworks from the Nationa...

An imaginative reassessment of Æthelred the Unready, one of medieval Englands most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon ki...

A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world. The Jaipurs were Indias mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen...

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 stones thro...

Theyre not like us, the royal family. Or are they? We simply dont know and were all desperate to find out. This A-Z of royalty is the practical mi...

When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world's richest men, his fortune estimated at just under GB...