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King John and Magna Carta

By Sean McGlynn

Mountbatten: The Official Biography

By Philip Ziegler

The Life and Times of Cleopatra

The Kings and Queens of Scotland

By Nicholas Best, The National Gallery of Scotland

Diana

By Julie Burchill

Amazing Grace: The Great Days of Dukes

By E. S. Turner

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

By Countess Of Carnarvon

Coronation: From the 8th to the 21st Century

By Roy Strong

Scotland's Kings and Queens (Pride of Britain)

By Bold, Alan

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Catherine the Great

By Henri Troyat, Emily Read

The "Times" Royal Handbook

By Alan Hamilton

On Duty with the Queen: My Time as a Buckingham Palace Press Officer

By Dickie Arbiter, Lynne Barrett-Lee

Isabel of Burgundy: The Duchess Who Played Politics in the Age of Joan of ARC

By Aline S. Taylor

Last King and I

By William Stevenson, Elie Godsi

A Brief History of British Kings & Queens

By Mike Ashley

Edward VII's Children

By John Van der Kiste

Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36

By John Van der Kiste

A Princess Remembers

By Gayatri

The House of Tudor

By Alison Plowden

Richard III (Penguin Monarchs): A Failed King?

By Rosemary Horrox

The Popes: A History

By Viscount John Julius Norwich

17 Carnations: The Windsors, The Nazis and The Cover-Up

By Andrew Morton

Harry's War: the True Story of Prince Harry's Heroism in Afghanistan

By Robert Jobson

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain

By Martin Williams

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince: from contemporary letters, diaries and chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince

By Richard Barber

Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Pride of Britain)

By Musgrave, Clifford

The Complete Idiot's Guide to British Royalty

By Richard Buskin

The Crown Jewels and Coronation Ceremony

By Sir Thomas Butler

Off with Her Head!: Henry VIII - The Life and Loves of Bluff King Hal

By English Heritage