Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Ever After: Diana and the Life She Led
By: Anne Edwards
Overnight, Diana Spencer emerged from relative obscurity to being the most famous-and most photographed-woman in the world. By all appearances, her marriage to Prince Charles was a Cinderella story come to life. Everyone knows how the fairy tale...
Published: May 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 414
Nefertiti: Unlocking the Mystery Surrounding Egypt's Most Famous and Beautiful Queen
By: Joyce A. Tyldesley
The classic account of Egypt's most famous queen—now fully revised For over a decade, Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world: a beautiful queen blessed by the sun god, adored...
Published: Aug 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 228
The Making of a Royal Romance: William, Harry, and Kate Middleton--The Future Queen
By: Katie Nicholl
William and Harry was an overnight sensation when it was published a week before Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement announcement in November 2010. Now the author, a royal insider and the royal correspondent for The Daily Mail, has...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 384
Princess Diana: Revised
By: Richard Buskin
Originally published in 1992, this biography has been fully revised with an addition of 32 pages of text covering the beloved Princess's untimely death and her internationally televised memorial service. Includes 75 photos.
Published: Sep 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 223
Mary Tudor: The Spanish Tudor
By: H. F. M. Prescott
Notorious for her persecution of Protestants, Queen Mary I has been vilified by generations of historians as Bloody Mary. But this award-winning biography offers a more humane and measured perspective on the life of this tormented woman. With...
Published: Oct 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 452
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II
By: Michael Paterson
Elizabeth II is within a few years of becoming the longest-reigning British monarch. Michael Paterson paints a portrait of one of the world's great leaders of state, as well as what the future of the royal family looks like. The book will examine the...
Published: Dec 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 380
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
By: Helen Rappaport
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Last Days of the Romanovs, Helen Rappaport brings a compelling documentary feel to the story of this royal marriage and of the queen's obsessive love for her husband – a story that...
Published: May 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 368
After Diana: William, Harry, Charles, and the Royal House of Windsor
By: Christopher Andersen
This family did not have a drop of humanity in it before. I think I've changed that.' --DianaFor all the millions of words that have been written about the People's Princess, no one has yet penetrated palace walls to reveal what has really happened...
Published: Jun 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 352
Annabel: An Unconventional Life
By: Annabel Goldsmith
Lady Annabel Goldsmith is a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry. In these memoirs she tells of her aristocratic uringing with an increasingly eccentric father, a Conservative MP with strong liberal leanings, and a mother who died young from...
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 322
Blood & Oil: A Prince's Memoir of Iran, from the Shah to the Ayatollah
By: Manucher Farmanfarmaian
PEN/West Award Finalist' Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and future, this book is...
Published: Dec 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 514
Camilla Charles: The Love Story
By: Caroline Graham
An intimate account of the romance and marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.Spanning decades, the story of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles is one of the most controversial love stories of our time. In this international...
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 352
Catherine the Great
By: Simon Dixon
In 1745 a little-known German princess named Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst married the nephew of Empress Elizabeth of Russia. Seventeen years later she overthrew her husband to become Catherine the Great, one of the most celebrated monarchs in history,...
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 464
Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair
By: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
The first substantial, authoritative biography of Charles and Camilla and their relationship.This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince...
Published: Oct 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 368
Diana
By: Sarah Bradford
Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her death—the definitive biography of Diana, Princess of Wales An icon remembered in death as vividly as she appeared in life, Diana, Princess of Wales, is one of the most enduring...
Published: Jul 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 443
Diana : Story of a Princess
By: Tim Clayton
Based on the groundbreaking ITV/The Learning Channel documentary series, and drawn from years of research and dozens of interviews with friends and associates speaking on the record for the first time, Diana contains never-before-revealed information...
Published: Aug 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 416
Diana: The Intimate Portrait
By: Judy Wade
When Princess Diana died in August 1997, the world mourned for a woman they felt they had come to know intimately; having witnessed the quiet, blushing Lady Diana Spencer transform into an elegant, stylish ambassador...
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 288
Harry's War: The True Story of the Soldier Prince
By: Robert Jobson
On February 28, 2008, to great international surprise, the British Ministry of Defense released a statement acknowledging that Prince Harry—son of the late Princess Diana and third in line to the British throne—had...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 252
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Diamond Jubilee Souvenir 1952-2012
By: Annie Bullen
A gorgeously photographed celebration of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's 60 magnificent years as British SovereignWith the exception of Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years, Queen Elizabeth...
Published: Jun 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 68
Her Majesty: Sixty Regal Years
By: Brian Hoey
DIVp"The most intimate book ever written about the Royals."—IThe Mail on SundayThis fully updated edition of a classic biography is a revealing portrait of the most famous woman in the world through the eyes of those who've known her and...
Published: Sep 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 256
High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly
By: Donald Spoto
Drawing on his unprecedented access to Grace Kelly, bestselling biographer Donald Spoto at last offers an intimate, honest, and authoritative portrait of one of Hollywood's legendary actresses.In just seven years–from 1950 through...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 320
History of King Charles the Second of England
By: Jacob Abbot
The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any...
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 204
Kate: The Making of a Princess
By: Claudia Joseph
Kate Middleton is the girl everyone wants to be. Catherine Elizabeth "Kate" Middleton is living a perfect Cinderella fairy tale. She is the woman who won the heart of Britain's most desirable bachelor. Academically...
Published: Mar 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Kings & Queens: The History of the British Monarchy (Haynes Pocket Manual)
By: Anita Ganeri
Kings & Queens, part of our exciting new series of Haynes Pocket Manuals for children, provides information, facts and figures on all the kings and queens of England, from William I (1066-1087) to Elizabeth II (1952-present), including lots of fun...
Published: Feb 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 127
LEAP OF FAITH: MEMOIRS OF AN UNEXPECTED LIFE
By: Queen Noor
Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With her husband being not only Jordan's monarch but the spiritual leader of all Muslims, Lisa was unsure what her role would...
Published: Mar 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 496
Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar
By: Emilie Ruete
Emily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in the palace, but in...
Published: May 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 288
Not In Front of the Corgis: Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains
By: Brian Hoey
What is the world's most famous family really like when it is out of the public gaze? This is the inside story of the royal family through the eyes of those who know them best; a sneak peek behind the curtains to reveal what they really get...
Published: Jun 2013
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 228
Paris-London Connection: The Assassination of Princess Diana
By: John Morgan
Paris-London Connection is the most shocking yet factual book written on the 1997 Paris crash that took the lives of Princess Diana and her lover, Dodi Fayed. This fast-moving but authoritative narrative covers the events leading up to and following...
Published: Jul 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 192
Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage
By: Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
'Great fun to read; written with bouncy charm, but shot through with penetrating insights.'—Sunday TelegraphThis is the first major biography of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh—both royal, both great-great-great grandchildren of Queen...
Published: Nov 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 413
Princess Diana - Her Last Love
By: Kate Snell
Diana: Her Last Love is an account of the late Princess of Wales' relationship with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. It discloses how they met at a London hospital, and how, for the last two years of Diana's life, they managed to keep their...
Published: May 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty
Pages: 232
Princess Masako: The Tragic True Story of Japan's Crown Princess
By: Ben Hills
The tragic true story of Japan's Crown Princess-with a new afterword by the author. IIt's the fantasy of many young women: marry a handsome prince, move into a luxurious palace, and live happily ever after. But that's not how it turned out...
Published: Jan 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Royalty