The Best Royalty Biographies & Memoirs 2025

1. Queen of Scots : The True Life of Mary Stuart (Paperback)

In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate, gripping portrait of one of history's greatest women and depicts her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie. A biography as enthralling as a detective story, of the woman who reigned over sixteenth-century Scotland (New York Times Book Review). In Mary Queen of Scots, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy. Bringing together all surviving documents and uncovering a trove of new sources for the first time, Guy dispels the popular image of Mary Stuart as a romantic leading lady--achieving her ends through feminine wiles--and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I. Through Guy's pioneering research and superbly readable prose, we come to see Mary as a skillful diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of factions that sought to control or dethrone her. It is an enthralling, myth-shattering look at a complex woman and ruler and her time. "The definitive biography . . . gripping . . . a pure pleasure to read."--Washington Post Book World

• Author: John Guy • ISBN:9780618619177 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2005-10-01

2. The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History, Used [Paperback]

When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last for thirty years. Men who had once been among the most powerful figures in England ended up on the scaffold, on the run, or in fear of the assassin's bullet. History has painted the regicides and their supporters as fanatical Puritans, but among them were remarkable men, including John Milton and Oliver Cromwell. Don Jordan and Michael Walsh bring these remarkable figures and this astonishing story vividly to life an engrossing, bloody tale of plots, spies, betrayal, fear and ambition.

The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History, Used [Paperback]

4. Frederick the Great of Prussia: Absolutism and Administration (Men in Office), Used [Hardcover]

Frederick the Great, important ruler of the Enlightement period, and his reign as a German territorial prince inside the Holy Roman Empire is discussed.

Frederick the Great of Prussia: Absolutism and Administration (Men in Office), Used [Hardcover]

5. The Private Life of Marie Antoinette [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Documents the facts of, daughter of the Empress of Austria, Marie Antoinette's life. This title includes marriage to the prince of France; the ill-fated Affair of the Necklace, tales of excess and infidelity; her flight from Paris; and her execution by guillotine.

The Private Life of Marie Antoinette, Used [Paperback]

6. Charles and Diana: Portrait of Marriage [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. An account of the marriage of Charles and Diana.

Charles and Diana: Portrait of Marriage, Used [Hardcover]

7. Royal Secrets: The View from Downstairs [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Royal Secrets: The View from Downstairs by Stephen P. Barry

Royal Secrets: The View from Downstairs, Used [Hardcover]

8. The Windsor Knot: Charles, Camilla and the Legacy of Diana (Pinnacle Biography) [Mass Market Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Branded as "the other woman," Camilla still shoulders the blame for the failure of Charles and Diana's marriage -- even when an apparent truce was made between mistress and princess in the last year of Diana's life. Now, locked in a never-ending struggle to gain acceptance from the British public -- and, more importantly, from the Royal Family -- Charles and Camilla persevere. History is against them. Charles's ascension to the throne is at stake. Yet it appears that nothing can come between them. Not Andrew Parker Bowles. Camilla's long-suffering husband. Not Prince William and Prince Harry, whose undying love for their mother still threatens to drive a wedge between them and their father. Not even the Queen, who has seen the media, the Church, and popular opinion turn against the monarchy.

The Windsor Knot : Charles, Camilla and the Legacy of Diana, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

9. Bonnie Prince Charlie [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Bonnie Prince Charlie is celebrated in Scotland as the Young Pretender, Charles Stuart, the hero whose claim to the British throne divided the kingdom and shook the opulent monarchies of continental Europe In this compelling and absorbing biography, Carolly Erickson brings all her masterly skills to bear in telling the story of the motley band of Highland rebels who challenged George III and embraced Bonnie Prince Charlie as their last hope. She tells the story of their crushing defeat, chronicling with bone-chilling accuracy the massacre at Culloden, where women wailed through the silent spring night after the battle, identifying corpses of their loved ones. Erickson follows Charles after the disaster, homeless but seldom friendless, as he lived out his picaresque life on the continent. Tormented by his own inner demons, the boy-hero gradually became an irascible, misogynistic old man, closeted with his memories of the windswept moors of Scotland, still clinging to the belief that he was meant to be king.

Bonnie Prince Charlie, Used [Hardcover]

10. Queen Elizabeth II [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Cover sligthly marked..Hardback,Privately Owned, ,with previous owner's name inside cover,in good all-round condition,no dust jacket,184pages.

Queen Elizabeth II, Used [Hardcover]