A brilliantly written study of the relationship of Elizabeth I, England's Protestant queen, and her cousin Mary, Catholic queen of France and Scotland. Alison Plowden combines historical knowledge with a storyteller's gift for drama and sus...
A history of the royal House of Stewart--the former rulers of Scotland and pretenders to the throne of England and Wales--written by a direct descendant of the last Stewart king.
Working with a team of academic monarchs, Lady Antonia Fraser chronicles the fortunes of England's ten dynasties and 41 monarchs, from John (who signed the Magna Carta) to Elizabeth I, George III (the mad king of the American Revolution), a...
One was stabbed to death in an attempted coup. Another was portrayed as a villain in one of Shakespeare's plays. They are among the kings and queens who ruled Scotland over the last nine hundred years. This engaging book reveals the persona...
A history of the royal House of Stewart--the former rulers of Scotland and pretenders to the throne of England and Wales--written by a direct descendant of the last Stewart king.
In one compendious volume, The Mammoth Book of Kings Queens offers the first royal biographical A-Z, its pages lavish in details on all the rulers of kingdoms within the British Isles, together with their wives or consorts, pretenders, usur...