John Guy

Imperfect Union

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

By Anna Whitelock

Robert Colls

That Was The Queen That Was

The Reign: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain – Part I: The Way It Was, 1952–79

By Matthew Engel

William Kuhn

What the Butler Saw

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil

By Tina Brown

Jane Ridley

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Queen

The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana

By Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac

David A H B Taylor

The Sport of Kings

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

Anne Curry

How to Lose Two Crowns

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Ragnhild Hatton

Charles II

King Charles II

By Antonia Fraser

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

Anne Somerset

Marriage Plots

Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots

By Kate Williams

Devices & Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

By Kate Hubbard

Nicholas Vincent

The Devil Wears Ermine

The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown

By Nick Barratt

King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts

By Claudia Gold

Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

By Frances Welch

Adrian Tinniswood

Death Became Him

White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

Piers Brendon

Heir & Graces

Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles

By Tom Bower

Kenneth Rose

Did he Introduce the Grey Squirrel?

The Importance of Being Edward: King in Waiting 1841–1901

By Stanley Weintraub