Biography: Royalty

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...