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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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The Children of Henry VIII
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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The Princes in the Tower
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
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Diana: Her True Story in Her Own Words
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The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.88 avg rating — 8,143 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
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4.05 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
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Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
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3.95 avg rating — 3,736 ratings
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
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3.83 avg rating — 4,602 ratings
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The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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4.21 avg rating — 2,515 ratings
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years Of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, And Revenge
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3.69 avg rating — 8,432 ratings
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
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3.99 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
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3.85 avg rating — 8,823 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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A Royal Duty
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Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
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The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty
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Queen Victoria: A Personal History
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4.02 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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Napoleon the Great
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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
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Josephine: Napoleon's Incomparable Empress
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
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The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria
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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
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A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
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3.78 avg rating — 403 ratings
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
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Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of Eight Royal Brides
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The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
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The Romanovs, 1613-1918
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Anne Boleyn
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The Romanovs, 1818–1959: Alexander II of Russia and His Family
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Anastasia: The Lost Princess
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
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The Reluctant Empress
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Queen Mary
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The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation
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The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
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Kaiser Wilhem II: Germany's Last Emperor
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Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
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All The Shah's Horses
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Iran from Crown to Turbans
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Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
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Mademoiselle Boleyn
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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The History of the Kings of Britain
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Louis XI: The Universal Spider
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5,000 Years of Royalty: Kings, Queens, Princes, Emperors & Tsars
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The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895-1952
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
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The Twelve Caesars
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The Camera and the Tsars: A Romanov Family Album
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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
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Katya & the Prince of Siam
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In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
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Ivan the Terrible
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
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Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy, 1910-1918
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars
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An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
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The Empress of Farewells: The Story of Charlotte, Empress of Mexico
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Edward VI: The Lost King of England
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Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
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Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
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Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
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The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
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King Edward VIII
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The Grimaldis of Monaco
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My Memories of Six Reigns
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
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