Nonfiction Books on Life at Royal Courts
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The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
by:
Lucy Worsley
4.03 avg rating β 2,275 ratings 3. 
Ladies In Waiting: From The Tudors To The Present Day
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Anne Somerset
3.67 avg rating β 316 ratings 
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating β 5,178 ratings 
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating β 7,980 ratings 11. 
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
by:
Stefan Zweig
4.39 avg rating β 8,975 ratings 
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Victoria and Albert: A Family Life at Osborne House
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Sarah Ferguson
4.27 avg rating β 101 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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Greg King
4.15 avg rating β 376 ratings 
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court: The True Story Behind 'The King and I' 3.36 avg rating β 598 ratings
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Sarah Churchill: Duchess of Marlborough: The Queen's Favourite
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Ophelia Field
3.63 avg rating β 585 ratings 20. 
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
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Karen Lindsey
4.07 avg rating β 1,399 ratings 22. 
Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria
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Theo Aronson
4.21 avg rating β 560 ratings 23. 
All the King's Cooks : The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace 3.81 avg rating β 86 ratings
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The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
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John P.D. Cooper
3.70 avg rating β 735 ratings 25. 
The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
by:
Linda Porter
4.04 avg rating β 3,411 ratings 26. 
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
by:
Anne Sebba
3.44 avg rating β 4,656 ratings 
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The Court of St. James's: The monarch at work from Victoria to Elizabeth II really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 8 ratings
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The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1) 3.76 avg rating β 587 ratings
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
by:
Ivan Morris
4.04 avg rating β 935 ratings 38. 
A Journal of the Reign of Kings George IV and William IV
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Charles Greville
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 41. 
The Six Wives of Henry VIII: The Life and Observations of Eustace Chapuys at the Tudor Court
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Lauren Mackay
4.29 avg rating β 213 ratings 41. 
China Between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #2) 3.82 avg rating β 257 ratings
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China's Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty (History of Imperial China, #3) 3.94 avg rating β 285 ratings
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Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II
by:
Philip Mansel
3.52 avg rating β 25 ratings 
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Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria
by:
William Kuhn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 23 ratings 
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At the Court of Versailles: Eyewitness Reports from the Reign of Louis XIV
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Gilette Ziegler
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 55. 
A Queen at Home: An Intimate Account of the Social and Domestic Life of Queen Victoria's Court
by:
Vera Watson
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 55. 
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
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Frances Welch
3.42 avg rating β 146 ratings 
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Eating with Emperors: 150 Years of Dining with Emperors, Kings, Queens . . . and the Occasional Maharajah (The Miegunyah Volumes, 120)
by:
Jake Smith
4.15 avg rating β 13 ratings 60. 
The World of King Arthur and His Court: People, Places, Legend, and Lore 3.71 avg rating β 73 ratings
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Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy, 1910-1918
by:
Theo Aronson
4.12 avg rating β 311 ratings 60. 
King's Counsellor Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
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Alan Lascelles
4.28 avg rating β 256 ratings 66. 
The Complete Roman Emperor: Imperial Life at Court and on Campaign (The Complete Series)
by:
Michael Sommer
3.31 avg rating β 32 ratings 66. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating β 8,259 ratings 66. 
Splendor at Court: Renaissance Spectacle and the Theater of Power
by:
Roy Strong
3.29 avg rating β 7 ratings 69. 
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The Princely Court: Medieval Courts and Culture in North-West Europe, 1270-1380
by:
Malcolm Vale
3.88 avg rating β 16 ratings 69. 
The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
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Caroline Johnson
4.58 avg rating β 43 ratings 72. 
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The Cult of Elizabeth: Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry
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Roy Strong
3.95 avg rating β 38 ratings 79. 
From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts 3.84 avg rating β 38 ratings
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The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War
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David Starkey
3.81 avg rating β 21 ratings 79. 
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The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life 1460-1547
by:
Simon Thurley
4.14 avg rating β 36 ratings 84. 
The Road to Mayerling: The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria
by:
Richard Barkeley
3.73 avg rating β 55 ratings 
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Hans Holbein the Younger: Painter at the Court of Henry VIII
by:
Jochen Sander
4.18 avg rating β 17 ratings 88. 
The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.54 avg rating β 28 ratings 91. 
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A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating β 1,363 ratings 93. 
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Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating β 113 ratings 
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The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
by:
John Guy
3.38 avg rating β 8 ratings 97. 
Power of a Woman. Memoirs of a Turbulent Life: Eleanor of Aquitaine
by:
Robert Fripp
3.48 avg rating β 42 ratings 