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Henry VIII: The King and His Court
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The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
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4.03 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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Ladies In Waiting: From The Tudors To The Present Day
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Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon (1710-1715)
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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3.89 avg rating — 5,194 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
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Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
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3.94 avg rating — 5,454 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,044 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
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4.39 avg rating — 9,402 ratings
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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3.94 avg rating — 38,364 ratings
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums
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Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia
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3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House
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4.26 avg rating — 102 ratings
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The Pillow Book
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4.02 avg rating — 9,846 ratings
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The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
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4.14 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Pharaoh: Life at Court and on Campaign
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4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I'
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3.36 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Sarah Churchill: Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
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3.63 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
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4.07 avg rating — 1,405 ratings
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Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria
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4.21 avg rating — 572 ratings
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All the King's Cooks : The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace
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3.83 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
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3.70 avg rating — 739 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
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4.04 avg rating — 3,423 ratings
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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3.44 avg rating — 4,696 ratings
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The Queen and Her Court: A Guide to the British Monarchy Today
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3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Who's Who at the Tudor Court
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3.82 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Sun King: Louis Fourteenth at Versailles
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3.79 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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3.54 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The Court of St. James's: The monarch at work from Victoria to Elizabeth II
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael
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4.01 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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4.15 avg rating — 23,004 ratings
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Life in a Medieval Castle
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A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1652 - 1722
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4.30 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Moon Princess, The: Memories of the Shan States
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 611 ratings
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My Memories of Six Reigns
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4.15 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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4.05 avg rating — 951 ratings
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A Journal of the Reign of Kings George IV and William IV
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII: The Life and Observations of Eustace Chapuys at the Tudor Court
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4.30 avg rating — 219 ratings
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China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 263 ratings
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The Final Curtsey
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3.87 avg rating — 2,149 ratings
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China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3)
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3.92 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
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3.52 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court
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Life at the Court of Queen Victoria: 1861-1901
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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1015 Copenhagen K: Mary's Dysfunctional In-Laws
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3.49 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
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3.50 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana
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Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria
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The Secret History
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3.84 avg rating — 3,388 ratings
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Royal Vendetta: The Crown of Spain 1829-1965
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Memoirs of the Prince de Talleyrand Volume 3
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At the Court of Versailles: Eyewitness Reports from the Reign of Louis XIV
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A Queen at Home: An Intimate Account of the Social and Domestic Life of Queen Victoria's Court
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The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
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Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
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The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
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Journals and Letters
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Life at the court of Queen Victoria, 1861-1901: Illustrated from the collection of Lord Edward Pelham-Clinton, Master of the Household : with selections from the journals of Queen Victoria
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Eating with Emperors: 150 Years of Dining with Emperors, Kings, Queens . . . and the Occasional Maharajah (The Miegunyah Volumes, 120)
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4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The World of King Arthur and His Court: People, Places, Legend, and Lore
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3.71 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Unnatural Murder: Poison at the Court of James l
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Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy, 1910-1918
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King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
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The Complete Roman Emperor: Imperial Life at Court and on Campaign (The Complete Series)
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power
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Louisa, lady in waiting: The personal diaries and albums of Louisa, lady in waiting to Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra
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The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270-1380
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The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
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People of the Pharaohs: From Peasant to Courtier
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914
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The Book of the Courtier
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Catherine the Great
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King's Mistress, Queen's Servant
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The Cult Of Elizabeth
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From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts
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People: The Royals: Their Lives, Loves, and Secrets
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Sissi: L'impératrice anarchiste
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The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
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False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King
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Intrigue and Treason: The Tudor Court, 1547-1558
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The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life 1460-1547
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The Road to Mayerling: The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria
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Katya & the Prince of Siam
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The Tudor Court
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Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII
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The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
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Young Victoria
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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
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Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII: The Wardrobe Book of the Wardrobe of the Robes prepared by James Worsley in December 1516, edited from Harley ... Harley MS 4217, both in the British Library
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Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
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Fools and Jesters at the English Court
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife
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Carl Faberge: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia
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The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
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Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a Turbulent Life: Eleanor of Aquitaine
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