History - Royalty

Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville

Joinville, François-Ferdinand-Philippe-Louis-Marie d'Orléans, prince de

The work is a first‑person memoir by François‑Ferdinand‑Philippe‑Louis‑Marie d’Orléans, Prince de Joinville,…

Royalty in All Ages The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

The work is a Victorian‑era survey of the lighter side of European monarchy, compiled by Thomas Firminger…

A forgotten Prince of Wales

Henry Curties

The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus

John Stuart Hay

The work is a scholarly attempt to rescue the reputation of the short‑lived Roman ruler known as Elagabalus,…

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

The third volume of Emmanuel‑Auguste‑Dieudonné Las‑Cases’s memoirs records a day in July 1816 when Napoleon,…

Memoirs of Leonora Christina, Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685

Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina, grevinde

This work is a nineteenth‑century English translation of the memoirs written by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt,…

King Henry V

William Shakespeare

The work is Shakespeare’s historical drama about Henry V, the English monarch who ruled from 1413 to 1422.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary

David Hume

David Hume’s “The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.

Queen Victoria

Lytton Strachey

The work is a biographical narrative that traces the early life and marriage of Victoria, Queen of Great…

Catherine De Medici

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a French‑language historical essay by Honoré de Balzac, rendered here in English translation,…

The Empresses of Constantinople

Joseph McCabe

Joseph McCabe’s work is a scholarly survey of the women who occupied the imperial throne of Constantinople,…

The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire Paris Society in the Sixties; Including Letters of Napoleon III., M. Pietri, and Comte de la Chapelle, and Portraits of the Period

Edward Legge

The book is a richly illustrated historical study that seeks to balance the public perception of the Second…

Voltaire's history of Charles XII, king of Sweden

Voltaire

Voltaire’s “History of Charles XII, King of Sweden” is a concise, eight‑book narrative that traces the…

King René d'Anjou and His Seven Queens

Edgcumbe Staley

Edgcumbe Staley’s work is a sprawling, fact‑laden biography that treats the life of René I, the flamboyant…

The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

George Cavendish

The work is a biographical narrative of Thomas Wolsey, the great cardinal and chief minister of Henry VIII,…

Mary Tudor, Queen of France

Mary Croom Brown

The work is a scholarly biography of Mary Tudor, second daughter of Henry VII and later queen of France,…

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688

David Hannay

David Hannay’s work is a concise, scholarly survey of the Royal Navy from its embryonic stage under King John…

The court of Louis XV

Imbert de Saint-Amand

The work is a historical study that treats the court of Louis XV as a living tableau, beginning with a…

King Richard III

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a historical drama that dramatizes the final years of the…

Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign

John Ashton

John Ashton’s work is a sprawling compilation of anecdotes, news items and illustrations that aim to preserve…

Henry the Sixth: a reprint of John Blacman's memoir, with translation and notes

John Blakman

This volume is a scholarly re‑print of John Blakman’s early‑sixteenth‑century tract on the “Personality of…

The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask Extracted from Documents in the French Archives

George Agar Ellis Dover

The work is a scholarly reconstruction of the Iron Mask episode, assembled by George Agar Ellis Dover, Baron,…

Ludwig the Second, King of Bavaria

Clara Tschudi

The work is a biographical sketch of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, written by Clara Tschudi.

Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess

Henry W. Fischer

The work is a sprawling, first‑person diary that presents itself as the private musings of Louise, Crown…