Royalty category: 1453 books
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Lancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal House...
The Romanov Sisters
The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A 12-WEEK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Helen Rappaport paints a compelling portrait of the doomed grand duchesses." —People magazine
"The public spoke of the sisters in a gentile, superficial manner, but Rappaport captures sections of letters and diary entries to showcase...
by Alison Weir
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
“Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon;...
The Queen Mother
The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality...
The Women of the Cousins' War
The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
#1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the extraordinary true stories of three women largely forgotten by history: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, queen of England; and Margaret Beaufort, the founder of the Tudor dynasty.
In...
Victoria: The Queen
An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak,...
by Amanda Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Lady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire,...
by Lucy Aikin
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
This book gives us an in depth look at the court of Queen Elizabeth I from birth to death. Widely acclaimed to be one of the most accurate accounts, it features letters, quotes and even sonnets from all the leading people of the day. The intrigues and deceits are written about in great detail - A gripping classic read from AUK's Revisited series.
by Carolly Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Here is the tragic, stormy life of Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Her story is a chronicle of courage and faith, betrayal and treachery-set amidst the splendor, pageantry, squalor, and intrigue of sixteenth-century Europe.
The history of Mary Tudor is an improbable...
The Last Princess
The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria's youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother---a powerful and insightful look into two women of signi?cant importance and in?uence in world history.
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert....
Game of Crowns
Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A moving and compulsively readable look into the lives, loves, relationships, and rivalries among the three women at the heart of the British royal family today: Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla Parker-Bowles, and Kate Middleton—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Good Son, These Few...
by Melveena McKendrick
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain are most often remembered for the epochal voyage of Christopher Columbus. But the historic landfall of October 1492 was only a secondary event of the year. The preceding January, they had accepted the surrender of Muslim Granada, ending centuries of Islamic...
The Last of the Duchess
The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Intriguing, suspenseful, and witty, this is the story of journalist and novelist Caroline Blackwood's search for the late Duchess of Windsor. It is also a provocative exploration of the often bizarre connection between heightened celebrity and approaching death--in Blackwood's words, "the fatal effects of myth." First serial to New York Times Magazine.
The People's Princess
Cherished Memories of Diana, Princess of Wales, From Those Who Knew Her Best
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2007
In the ten years since Princess Diana’s shocking and tragic death in 1997, her hold on the world’s imagination has only increased. For The People’s Princess, Larry King asked many people who knew Diana, some officially and some more personally, for their favorite memories.
Sir Richard...