Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore, was born on 4 August, 1900. Few could have imagined the profound effect she would have on Britain and its people. This official biography tells not only her story but, through it, that of the country she loved so devotedly.

Charles II was thirty when he crossed the Channel in fine May weather in 1660. Exactly ten years later Charles would stand again on the shore at Dover, laying the greatest bet of his life in a secret deal with his cousin, Louis XIV. This book offers a portrait of Charles II, exploring his elusive nature through the lens of these ten vital years.

Portrays Elizabeth as both a woman and a queen, an extraordinary phenomenon in a patriarchal age. This book tells of: Elizabeth's long-standing affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester; her dealings with her many suitors; her rivalry with Mary, Queen of Scots; and, her bizarre relationship with the Earl of Essex, thirty years her junior.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes Lyon is the youngest daughter of the Earl of Strathmore. Drawing on her private correspondence and other unpublished material from the Royal Archives, this title reveals the witty girl who endeared herself to soldiers convalescing at Glamis in the First World War and the assured young Duchess of York.

Published to accompany a Channel 4 series, Starkey turns the paradox into a person. This new approach to the enigma of Elizabeth's character presents a retelling of her reign, her love for Robert Dudley, the tragi-comedy of her suitors, her epic struggles with Mary and Philip II and the final debacle of her relationship with Robert Devereux.

The Little Book of Diana shows the warm and human side to the world's most famous woman. Hers should have been a long and golden life filled with riches and acclaim when she married the most eligible of bachelors - Charles, the Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne. On August 31st 1997, the country came together in shock, grief and mourning following the tragic and untimely death of the ...

The first proper biography of the man who married, and divorced, Princess Margaret

The new life of this legendary French queen by bestselling historian Antonia Fraser.

The King's Other Body: Maria of Castile and the Crown of Aragon is both a biography of Alfonso V's queen and Lieutenant General of Catalunya and an analysis of her political partnership with Alfonso.

The colourful kings and queens of England seem like mere caricature, while less familiar rulers like William IV or Henry VI have faded into the shadows of history. This work features portrayals that shed light on the big names and the most neglected but intriguing royals.

The scandalous love lives of the British Royal Family.

Wit and Wisdom of Prince Philip

For more than 60 years Queen Victoria presided over 20 governments, and a country undergoing profound economic, social and political change. This biography brings Victoria and her ministers vividly to life, as well as all those whom the Queen came to know, to love, dislike, revere or denigrate.

What are Charles and Camilla really like? What is their heritage? What has made them the way they are? This title offers a portrait of two unusual individuals and a family saga.

This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very different people.

King of Prussia, German Emperor, and war leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the controversial figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. This book follows Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the decades of Wilhelmine era into global war and the collapse of Germany in 1918, to his last days.

The sequel to the bestselling MAJESTY, ROYAL brings the remarkable life of Queen Elizabeth II up to date in a special jubilee edition to celebrate her fifty years on the throne.