August 2022 Issue
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Royalist Generalissima
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
By Leanda de Lisle
March 2022 Issue
Edward Vallance
There’s None So Drunk as a Puritan
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
By Anna Keay
LR
October 2021 Issue
Anna Groundwater
Winter in Bohemia
Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts
By Nadine Akkerman
LR
May 2020 Issue
David A H B Taylor
The Sport of Kings
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II
By Linda Porter
LR
May 2020 Issue
John Adamson
Born to Marry
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
By Martyn Rady
July 2019 Issue
Veronica Buckley
Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV
By Philip Mansel
LR
November 1979 Issue
Ragnhild Hatton
Charles II
King Charles II
By Antonia Fraser
LR
July 2018 Issue
Adrian Tinniswood
Death Became Him
White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
By Leanda de Lisle
LR
June 2002 Issue
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Colossus who Married His Best Friend’s Moll
Peter the Great: A Biography
By Lindsey Hughes
October 2017 Issue
Anna Keay
Hunt of the Son
To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape
By Charles Spencer
June 2017 Issue
Lucy Moore
Contempt of Court
Love, Madness, & Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
By Johanna Luthman
LR
June 2017 Issue
Tim Harris
Heir Loss
The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart
By Sarah Fraser
LR
March 2017 Issue
David Gelber
The Woman Who Would Be King
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
By Linda M Heywood
LR
October 2016 Issue
Adrian Tinniswood
Charlie’s Angels
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
By Linda Porter
LR
May 2016 Issue
Linda Porter
Like Father, Like Son
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth
By Anna Keay
Charles II: The Star King
By Clare Jackson
LR
August 1996 Issue
Hugh Trevor-Roper
What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked
The Gunpowder Plot
By Antonia Fraser
LR
December 2015 Issue
Anne Somerset
How to Poison a King
The Murder of King James I
By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell
LR
March 2003 Issue
Frank McLynn
The Wisest Fool in Christendom
The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I
By Alan Stewart
LR
October 2003 Issue
Douglas Johnson
Cut-Throat Courtiers
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
LR
April 2004 Issue
Geordie Greig
The Miniature Monarch
Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
By Veronica Buckley
LR
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