Nonfiction Books on Life at Royal Courts
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Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I
by:
Stephen Alford
4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings 102. 
An Accidental Tragedy: The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots
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Roderick Graham
3.57 avg rating — 213 ratings 
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The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
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Frances Welch
3.75 avg rating — 145 ratings 
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Sir Francis Walsingham: A Courtier in an Age of Terror
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Derek Wilson
3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings 
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The Court of Christina of Sweden, and the Later Adventures of the Queen in Exile
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Francis Gribble
3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 109. 
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Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII 3.55 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861
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Queen Victoria
3.51 avg rating — 43 ratings 117. 
Life with Queen Victoria - Marie Mallet's Letters from Court 1887-1901
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Victor Mallet
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714:: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year
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Greg King
3.81 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England 3.69 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of ...
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Anne Hamilton
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011
by:
Alison Weir
3.62 avg rating — 403 ratings 132. 
The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition, and Everyday Life in the Court of a Borgia Prince 3.71 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Splendour of the Burgundian Court: Charles the Bold (1433 1477)
by:
Susan Marti
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 134. 
The Viandier of Taillevent: An edition of all extant manuscripts
by:
Guillaume Tirel
4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings 
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The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1969-77
by:
Asadollah Alam
3.54 avg rating — 100 ratings 137. 
Queenship In Britain 1660-1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Splendour at Court: Dressing for Royal Occasions Since 1700
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Nigel Arch
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 139. 
Royal Poxes & Potions: The Lives of Court Physicians, Surgeons & Apothecaries 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
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Anne Somerset
3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings 141. 
By Royal Command: Biographical Notes on Curtis Piehu Iaukea really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Stuarts in Italy, 1719 - 1766: A Royal Court in Permanent Exile
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Edward T. Corp
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The Secret History of the Court of Berlin: Or, the Character of the King of Prussia, His Ministers, Mistresses, Generals, Courtiers, Favourites, and T it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III
by:
Hester Davenport
3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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The Pure Love of Madame Guyon: The Great Conflict in King Louis XIV's Court 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Chivalry and the Perfect Prince: Tournaments, Art, and Armor at the Spanish Habsburg Court
by:
Braden Frieder
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 155. 
The Housekeeper's Diary: Charles and Diana Before the Breakup
by:
Wendy Berry
3.61 avg rating — 313 ratings 
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The Making of a Court Society: Kings and Nobles in Late Medieval Portugal
by:
Rita Costa Gomes
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Not in Front of the Servants: A True Portrait of English Upstairs/Downstairs Life 3.68 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Magnificence of the Tsars: Men's Dress at the Imperial Russian Court 1721-1917 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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At Home with the Queen: Life through the Keyhole of the Royal Household
by:
Brian Hoey
3.65 avg rating — 538 ratings 
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Ask Sir James: The Life of Sir James Reid, Personal Physician to Queen Victoria
by:
Michaela Reid
4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings 167. 
The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East
by:
A.C.S. Peacock
4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings 169. 
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The Sultan's Seraglio: An Intimate Portrait of Life at the Ottoman Court
by:
John Withers
3.31 avg rating — 29 ratings 174. 
Tutor to the Dragon Emperor: The Life of Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston at the Court of the Last Emperor of China 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Utility of Splendor: Ceremony, Social Life, and Architecture at the Court of Bavaria, 1600-1800 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China (History of Imperial China, #4)
by:
Dieter Kuhn
4.09 avg rating — 195 ratings 177. 
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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (History of Imperial China, #5)
by:
Timothy Brook
3.92 avg rating — 309 ratings 
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China's Last Empire: The Great Qing (History of Imperial China, #6)
by:
William T. Rowe
4.07 avg rating — 312 ratings 182.
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The Last Manchu: The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
by:
Pu Yi
3.81 avg rating — 1,166 ratings 184. 
Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Cristina di Savoia: A French Princess at the Savoy Court, in XVIIth Century Italy 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Celestial Silks: Chinese Religious & Court Textiles really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690 (Oxford Monographs on Music)
by:
Peter Holman
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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English Court Culture in the Later Middle Ages
by:
V.J. Scattergood
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 196. 
Exhuming Henry VIII's court: The Tudor household on the Jacobean stage
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Gaywyn Moore
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 196. 
The Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the Kamakura Period (1185-1333) 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Taste of Mey: Recipes and Memories Inspired by the Castle of Mey
by:
Charles III
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 