Francis King

Not Such a Bad Fellow

The Death of an Emperor

By Thomas Cramp

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

Alexander Waugh

We Mean It, Ma’am

Queen and Country

By William Shawcross

Michael Bloch

Queen of Darts

Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

By Craig Brown

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

Sarah Bradford

Prince of Pleasure

Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King

By Richard Davenport-Hines

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)

Charles Allen

Playboy Prince

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

By Quentin Crewe

Geordie Greig

To Lose A King

The People's King: The Story of the Abdication of the First Modern Monarch

By A Susan Williams

Alexander Waugh

How Weird was Wallis?

Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor

By Charles Higham

Jonathan Mirsky

‘He is a good fellow & only wants careful handling’

The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy

By Mark Logue and Peter Conradi

Philip Mansel

Building a Kingdom

Faisal I of Iraq

By Ali A Allawi

Douglas Smith

The 23 Steps

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport