Anne Curry

How to Lose Two Crowns

Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI

By Lauren Johnson

Munro Price

She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses

Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen

By John Hardman

Jessica Mann

A Familiar Tale Well Told Again

Queen Victoria

By Christopher Hibbert

Veronica Buckley

Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set

King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV

By Philip Mansel

Val Hennessy

My Spermy, Fattening Gland Turned Cold

Raincharm for the Dutchy and Other Laureate Poems

By Ted Hughes

Anthony Pagden

Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

By Geoffrey Parker

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

Glenn Richardson

Architect of State

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

By Leonie Frieda