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  • Emperor

    A New Life of Charles V

    This “elegant and engaging” biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: “a masterpiece” (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yes Ma'am

    The Secret Life of Royal Servants

    by Tom Quinn ...
    What really makes the British royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer?Well, surprisingly, it's not the royal family's devotion to duty, it's not their wealth or their status, it's not even their popularity (or notoriety!). No, what really makes the royal family tick is the huge body of servants and staff past ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Romanovs

    by Ian Grey ...
    The Romanov dynasty has dazzled, intrigued, and confused the world for more than three centuries. These extraordinary monarchs wielded absolute power over the vast, violent lands of Russia. Savagery and kindness, asceticism and opulence, piousness and cruelty existed side by side in the royal courts. New York Times bestselling historian Ian Grey threads his way through these turbulent centuries, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen Anne

    The Politics of Passion

    by Anne Somerset ...
    She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lady in the Tower

    The Fall of Anne Boleyn

    by Alison Weir ...
    Nearly five hundred years after her violent death, Anne Boleyn, second wife to Henry VIII, remains one of the world's most fascinating, controversial, and tragic heroines. Now acclaimed historian and bestselling author Alison Weir has drawn on myriad sources from the Tudor era to give us the first book that examines, in unprecedented depth, the gripping, dark, and chilling story of Anne Boleyn's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Blood and Oil

    Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

    From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.35-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • King Lear

    "King Lear" is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. set in the court of an ageing British monarch and based on the mythological Leir of Britain. Shakespeare probably wrote it in around 1604, sandwiched between two other great tragedies, "Othello" and "Macbeth." The first known performance of any version of Shakespeare's play was on St. Stephen's Day in 1606Having reached the age of 80, the ... Read more

    $0.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse

    The curious destinies of Queen Victoria's granddaughters

    by Frances Welch ...
    THE TIMES BOOK OF THE WEEKNamed one of The Telegraph's 'Best Biographies of the Year 2024'Queen Victoria had forty-two grandchildren but the four Princesses of Hesse were held in her particular favour. After the sudden death of her daughter Alice, Queen Victoria took an obsessive interest in the marriage prospects of the four girls their mother had left behind, hoping this might secure for them a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Queen Victoria's Mysterious Daughter

    A Biography of Princess Louise

    The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has been documented more by rumor and gossip than hard facts? When Lucinda Hawksley started to investigate, often thwarted by inexplicable secrecy, she discovered a fascinating woman, modern before her time, whose story ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Duchess

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURELady Georgiana Spencer was the great-great-great-great-aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, and was nearly as famous in her day. In 1774 Georgiana achieved immediate celebrity by marrying William Cavendish, fifth duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential aristocrats. She became the queen of fashionable society and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Victoria

    A Life

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    “[A] shimmering and rather wonderful biography.” —The GuardianWhen Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was the mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two and the matriarch of royal Europe through her children’s marriages. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique, an aging, stiff widow paraded as the figurehead to an all-male imperial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Nero

    Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome

    **A striking, nuanced biography of Nero—the controversial populist ruler and last of the Caesars—and a vivid portrait of ancient Rome“Exciting and provocative . . . Nero is a pleasure to read.”—Barry Strauss, author of The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium**The Roman emperor Nero’s name has long been a byword for cruelty, decadence, and despotism. As the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

    by Anna Keay ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEEleven years when Britain had no king.In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution.On a raw January afternoon, the Stuart king, Charles I, was executed for treason. Within weeks the English monarchy had been abolished and the ‘useless and dangerous’ House ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Young and Damned and Fair

    The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII

    Written with an exciting combination of narrative flair and historical authority, this biography of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is “a stunning achievement” (The Sunday Times, London), and “a masterly work of Tudor history that is engrossing, sympathetic, suspenseful, and illuminating” (Charlotte Gordon, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography).On the morning ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Soldier Kings of France

    The Soldier Kings of France explores the reigns of eight monarchs, from King Charles II to Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing their roles in expanding French power and shaping European history.In early October 1795, Napoleon Bonaparte led the governing Directory’s army against the rioting royalists in Paris (who were rebelling to restore the monarchy), crushing their campaign and beginning his rise to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blessed Charles of Austria

    October 3, 2004 saw what appeared to many to be a very strange thing: Emperor-King Charles of Austria-Hungary, last Habsburg to rule in Central Europe and wartime foe of the United States, was raised to the altars of the Church as a Blessed by St. John Paul II. But odd as this appeared, the real story of the “Peace Emperor” and his just as remarkable wife reads like a combination of a suspense ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Becoming Queen Victoria

    The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

    by Kate Williams ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The perfect companion to the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria • A gripping account of Queen Victoria’s rise and early years in power from CNN’s official royal historian“Kate Williams has perfected the art of historical biography. Her pacy writing is underpinned by the most impeccable scholarship.”—Alison WeirIn 1819, a girl was born to the fourth son of King George III. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen

    The Hawaiian kingdom's last monarch wrote her biography in 1897, the year before the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States. Her story covers six decades of island history told from the viewpoint of a major historical figure. Introduction by Glen Grant. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Die Geschichte Karls XII., König von Schweden

    by Voltaire ...
    Translated by Adolf Seubert ...
    Voltaires Biografie des berühmten Schwedenkönigs. Karl XII. führte während seiner Herrschaftszeit den Großen Nordischen Krieg, der mit dem Verlust der schwedischen Großmachtstellung in Europa endete. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queens of the Conquest

    England's Medieval Queens Book One

    by Alison Weir ...
    Series Book 1 - England's Medieval Queens
    In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England’s medieval queens to life.The lives of England’s medieval queens were packed with incident—love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare—but their stories have been largely obscured by centuries of myth and omission. Now esteemed biographer Alison Weir provides a fresh perspective ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Woman of Influence

    The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

    This “e****ngrossing, fast-paced, extremely well-researched biography” (Booklist) transports us to Tudor and Stuart England as Alice Spencer, the daughter of an upstart sheep farmer, becomes one of the most powerful women in the country and establishes a powerful dynasty that endures to this day. Perfect for fans of The Duchess Countess and Georgiana.Alice Spencer was born in 1560 to a family on ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

    “[A] tale of power, perseverance and passion . . . a great story in the hands of a master storyteller.”—The Wall Street JournalThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last Tsar

    The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

    “Elegantly written and magisterially researched” (Robert Service, author of A History of Modern Russia), the definitive story behind the self-destruction of the autocratic Romanov dynasty, by the world’s foremost expertWhen Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises, from war to social unrest. Though Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Wars of the Roses

    by Alison Weir ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Last White Rose presents a “masterful [and] revealingly detailed” (The Boston Globe) account of the epic clash for the throne between the royal houses of Lancaster and York—a blistering period in English history that impacted the monarchy forever.“Weir has perfected the art of bringing history to life.”—Chicago TribuneLancaster and York. For much of the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD