The sections of Harry: The People’s Prince concerning Harry’s military service are the strongest chapters of the book. Hutchins combines...

The final chapter of Elizabeth of York is the strongest because the best documented year of the Queen’s life was the last one before she...

In the reign of Mary I, the stepdaughter who blamed Anne for the collapse of her parents’ marriage, the queen was a scheming temptress,...

Through her comparative study of the seven most prominent women of the Wars of the Roses, Gristwood reveals the abrupt changes in the...

By synthesizing the known source material about the daily lives of the Grand Duchesses and analyzing their reading material and cultural...

Frieda also places the entire Borgia family in context. Pope Alexander VI is famous as the corrupt figure whose excesses brought the...

The outbreak of the First World War was difficult for this united family as it meant the departure of Lady Elizabeth’s elder brothers for...

Like many of her fellow first class passengers on the Titanic, Lady Duff Gordon was a self made entrepreneur who had risen from humble...

The King, a well known womanizer, at first assumed that his wife’s cousin had fathered a child out of wedlock and offered to help keep...

The Great Survivors is an excellent introduction to the full scope of current European royal monarchy. Peter Conradi places all the...

The future Edward VII’s evolution from a self indulgent Prince to a mature King is at the heart of Ridley’s well researched and well...

Mary Boleyn: Mistress of Kings brings together the scattered and often contradictory source material about King Henry VIII’s shadowy...

Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals Raised Their Children from 1066 to the Present Day is an excellent subject for a royal history...

While most consorts of deposed monarchs are blamed for their husbands’ political failings, Dona remained a popular figure despite the...

Since founding the Royal Historian website in February, I have had the pleasure of reading and reviewing numerous of royal history books....

The publication of Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy will hopefully contribute to more balanced teaching of the...

Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the first King of Saudi Arabia House also interviews Princes and Princesses from the House of Al Saud, the men and...

In contrast to the Duke and Duchess of York, who appear to have lost significant revenues from indifferent management of their lands and...

Larson’s conclusion that the princesses have enormous material wealth but little social freedom or autonomy will be familiar to readers...