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Queen of Peking

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Matthew Parris

How Very Interesting

A Voyage Around the Queen

By Craig Brown

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Piers Brendon

Colonel Blimp Enthroned

George V: Never a Dull Moment

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Francis King

Not Such a Bad Fellow

The Death of an Emperor

By Thomas Cramp

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March 2019 Issue

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

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David Gelber

Ivy Killer & Consort

The Quest for Queen Mary

By James Pope-Hennessy (Edited by Hugo Vickers)

Queen Mary: The Official Biography

By James Pope-Hennessy

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Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

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By Frances Welch

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Patrick French

Because He Could

Blood Against the Snows: The Tragic Story of Nepal’s Royal Dynasty

By Jonathan Gregson

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Alexander Waugh

We Mean It, Ma’am

Queen and Country

By William Shawcross

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Michael Bloch

Queen of Darts

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By Craig Brown

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Kate Saunders

A Handsome Windsor

The Prince

By Celia Brayfield

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July 1994 Issue

Edward Chancellor

All in Rancour, Envy And Tendentiousness

Divine Right: The Inglorious Survival of British Royalty

By Richard Tomlinson

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March 2017 Issue

Donald Rayfield

The Boy Scout & the Butcher

The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution

By Robert Service

Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait

By Victor Sebestyen

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Julian Fellowes

Louis XVIII’s Long-Lost Son is Found!

The Grimaldis of Monaco: Centuries of Scandal, Years of Grace

By By Anne Edwards

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May 2016 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Prince of Pleasure

Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King

By Richard Davenport-Hines

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February 2016 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Kings of Spin

Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand

By Stephen Bates

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February 2016 Issue

Anthony Mockler

Negusa Negast

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Translated by Peter Lewis)

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Charles Allen

Playboy Prince

The Last Maharaja: A Biography of Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur

By Quentin Crewe

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May 1984 Issue

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd

A Diverting Read

The Men Who Would Be King

By Nicholas Shakespeare

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July 1988 Issue

Francis Wheen

Off With Their Heads

The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy

By Tom Nairn

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