Read to your hearts content and discover our collection of books dedicated to uncovering the British Monarchy. With crisp biographies of each sovereign, illustrated with contemporary portraits, paintings, or statues. The authors try to convey a balanced account of both the most celebrated and the most maligned among their subjects and generally succeed in this venture. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

With original insights from those who knew her best, new interviews with world leaders and access to unseen papers, bestselling.I know that sounds like the opposite of a good recommendation, but there's something restful and comforting about reading a short but excellently written and edited biographical sketch of some British monarch.

So, all the monarchs are here if you need to consult a who's who of when different monarchs reigned, but the text is just a wee bit biased in their favor. If what you want is a book of short biographies, I think you would be better off to read the (much shorter and less dry) Horrible Histories book Cruel Kings and Mean Kings. I know that there are more detailed works out there, but sometimes a quick bio is all I want or need. Amusingly, and hardly surprisingly, this became much more conservative as it got closer to the current day.Written by experts on their subjects, this is a great introduction to the sweep on the English monarchy.

For example, the wonderful Wolf Hall trilogy) I had thought that perhaps these non fiction accounts of the English monarchy from the Normans through to the current Elizabeth II might be a bit dry .

we’ve picked out some of our favourite texts suitable for primary school children to help explore the Kings and Queens topic.

I have two coffee mugs with amusing caricatures of the monarch since William the Conqueror; one ends with Elizabeth and the other with Charles. Spanning ten dynasties of England's monarchs, The Kings and Queens of England presents portraits and potted biographies of England's monarchs. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. The structure is that of a directory or quick-reference guide while the content is exactly what it claims to be: a listing of English monarchs with brief bios (generally 2-4 pages for each). In this third instalment of the series that began with The Prime Ministers and The Presidents, Iain Dale charts this long history of the English and British monarchy, with 64 essays by journalists, historians and politicians on every individual to have sat on the throne, as well as some who didn't.Our regal journey takes you through all the royal houses – Norman, Angevin, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Orange, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg and Windsor – and comes right up to date with the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in May 2023.