If you like Philippa Gregory
A Royal Affair
Fans of Philippa Gregory’s novels of passion and intrigue in the royal courts will find plenty to enjoy in these equally royal stories of queens, consorts, and noblewomen.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age |
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Duchess of Aquitaine: A Novel of Eleanor Beautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine. Everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. Everyone, that is, except for her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces. In order to safeguard her lands and her life, Eleanor devises a scheme to marry the heir to the throne of France. But she must learn to be careful what she wishes for. Eleanor’s husband is a cautious man, whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor’s own; and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. |
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The Dark Queen: A Novel When a wounded captain of the Navarre army arrives on Faire Isle in 1572 and calls for an audience with Daughter of the Earth (aka healer, or witch) Ariane Cheney, he provokes the wrath of the eponymous queen of France, Catherine de Medici. Don’t miss the rest of the Dark Queen trilogy. |
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The Queen of Subtleties She was the dark-eyed commoner who captivated a king, causing a monumental upheaval in the land that would sever England from the rest of the Western world. Yet, after three short years of marriage, she would die by the headsman's sword, leaving behind a young daughter destined to rule as the greatest of all British monarchs. With stunning vividness, Dunn brings a tumultuous era to life, as she boldly reimagines the rise and descent of tragic, legendary queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII. |
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A Rose for the Crown |
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette |
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A Lady Raised High |
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Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles By her eighteenth birthday, Mary was a widow who had lost one throne and had been named by the Pope for another. And her extraordinary adventure had only begun. Defying her powerful cousin Elizabeth I, Mary set sail in 1561 to take her place as the Catholic Queen of a newly Protestant Scotland. A virtual stranger in her volatile native land, Mary would be hailed as a saint, denounced as a whore, and ultimately accused of murdering her second husband in order to marry her lover. By twenty-five, she had fled Scotland for the imagined sanctuary of Elizabeth's England, where she would be embroiled in intrigue until she was beheaded like a criminal. |
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The Innocent: A Novel |
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Mistress of the Sun: A Novel Based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King. Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a convent, Louise enters the court of the Sun King, where the king is captivated by her. As their love unfolds, Louise bears Louis four children, is made a duchess, and reigns unrivaled as his official mistress until dangerous intrigue threatens her position at court and in Louis's heart. Also, don’t miss her riveting trilogy featuring Josephine Bonaparte. |
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The Secret Wife of King George IV Although it was illegal, secret, and against the express commands of his famously mad father, King George IV of England married twice -- once for duty and once for love. While Caroline of Brunswick eventually became his lawful queen, it was the beautiful Maria Fitzherbert, recognized as his wife by the Catholic Church but not by the laws of England, who claimed his heart. Also: Courtesan, The Ruby Ring, The Perfect Royal Mistress, The Secret Bride: In the Court of Henry VIII |
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The First Princess of Wales |
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I, Victoria A fatherless girl grows up a virtual prisoner in the shabby backwater of Kensington Palace, despised by her royal relations, bullied and insulted by her foolish mother's evil genius. Only the core of stubbornness in her character sustains her as she waits for the day of deliverance - the day she will become Queen of England. She is Victoria; this is her story, recorded in her own words during the last troubled year of her life. |
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The Book of Eleanor: A Novel |
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The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn Anne Boleyn was the second of Henry's six wives, doomed to be beloved, betrayed, and beheaded. When Henry fell madly in love with her, he was already married to Catherine of Aragon. But his passion for Anne was great enough to rock the foundations of England and of all Christendom. But all too soon his passion faded; when Anne bore him not the promised son but a daughter Henry forsook her for another love, schemed against her, and ultimately had her sentenced to death. Also: The Queen's Bastard, Virgin, The Wild Irish, To the Tower Born, Mademoiselle Boleyn |
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I, Elizabeth Last in the line of succession to the English throne, Elizabeth inherited a country torn by religious differences, at war with Europe, and badly in debt. When she died in 1603, having ruled for forty-five years, her empire was solvent, the Spanish Armada had been defeated, the Church of England had been firmly established, and the men she favored, such as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh, had made her reign the Golden Age still remembered today. |
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Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette From the lush gardens of Versailles to the lights and gaiety of Paris, the verdant countryside of France, and finally the stark and terrifying isolation of a prison cell, the young Marie Antoinette’s life is joyful, poignant, and harrowing by turns. As her world of unprecedented royal splendor crumbles, the charming queen matures into a heroine of inspiring stature, one whose nobility arises not from the circumstance of her birth but from her courageous spirit. |
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Loyal in Love: Henrietta Maria, Wife of Charles I |
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The Winter Prince |
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Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine & King Charles II |
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Fatal Majesty: A Novel of Mary, Queen of Scots Combining the romance and drama of Margaret George with the sophistication of Umberto Eco and Peter Ackroyd, "Fatal Majesty" focuses on Mary, Queen of Scots, the center of one of the most complex and violent political eras in the annals of British history. |
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Farewell, My Queen: A Novel A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent chateau succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now exiled in Vienna, Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and discovers the full measure of her fascination with the Queen she served. |
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey–“the Nine Days’ Queen”– is a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor. Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy. Also: The Lady Elizabeth and many nonfiction royal biographies. |























