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Nonfiction Books on the Aristocracy and High Society
1.
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
by:
Amanda Foreman
3.78 avg rating β 20,121 ratings
2.
Bess of Hardwick First Lady of Chatsworth
by:
Mary S. Lovell
4.12 avg rating β 3,426 ratings
3.
Victoria's Daughters
by:
Jerrold M. Packard
3.95 avg rating β 5,264 ratings
4.
The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm
by:
Juliet Nicolson
3.66 avg rating β 1,539 ratings
5.
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
by:
Fiona Carnarvon
3.64 avg rating β 20,492 ratings
5.
To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by:
Gail MacColl
3.59 avg rating β 5,752 ratings
7.
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating β 5,711 ratings
8.
Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson
by:
Paula Byrne
3.78 avg rating β 668 ratings
9.
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating β 13,808 ratings
10.
The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.94 avg rating β 1,237 ratings
11.
Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
by:
Janet Gleeson
3.89 avg rating β 655 ratings
12.
The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
by:
Lucy Worsley
4.03 avg rating β 2,275 ratings
13.
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
by:
Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating β 1,958 ratings
14.
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
by:
Hunter S. Jones
4.17 avg rating β 88 ratings
15.
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
by:
Pamela Hicks
3.71 avg rating β 2,297 ratings
16.
The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I
by:
John P.D. Cooper
3.70 avg rating β 735 ratings
17.
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
by:
David Cannadine
3.86 avg rating β 399 ratings
18.
Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence: Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present
by:
Lawrence James
3.44 avg rating β 186 ratings
19.
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
by:
Stephen Budiansky
3.85 avg rating β 1,296 ratings
20.
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating β 2,690 ratings
21.
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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A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York
by:
Greg King
3.89 avg rating β 550 ratings
23.
Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of an English Dynasty
by:
Catherine Bailey
3.95 avg rating β 3,141 ratings
24.
Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor
by:
Rosina Harrison
3.76 avg rating β 3,282 ratings
25.
The Churchills
by:
Mary S. Lovell
4.14 avg rating β 1,113 ratings
26.
Elizabeth & Georgiana: The Duke of Devonshire and His Two Duchesses
by:
Caroline Chapman
3.64 avg rating β 77 ratings
27.
Lily, Duchess of Marlborough (1854β1909): A Portrait with Husbands
by:
Sally E. Svenson
4.09 avg rating β 35 ratings
28.
Wait for Me!: Memoirs
by:
Deborah Mitford
3.80 avg rating β 3,342 ratings
29.
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
by:
Douglas Smith
4.08 avg rating β 1,777 ratings
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Four Queens: The ProvenΓ§al Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating β 4,568 ratings
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Court Lady and Country Wife: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England
by:
Lita-Rose Betcherman
3.69 avg rating β 210 ratings
32.
The English: A Social History 1066-1945
by:
Christopher Hibbert
4.26 avg rating β 117 ratings
33.
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
by:
Alison Weir
3.69 avg rating β 2,642 ratings
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Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
by:
Lucy Worsley
3.71 avg rating β 357 ratings
35.
The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.87 avg rating β 8,388 ratings
36.
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England
by:
Venetia Murray
3.85 avg rating β 776 ratings
37.
The English Country House Party
by:
Phyllida Barstow
3.39 avg rating β 23 ratings
38.
The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill 1650 - 1744
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.77 avg rating β 122 ratings
39.
The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery
by:
Catherine Bailey
3.45 avg rating β 5,714 ratings
40.
High Society: The English Social Elite, 1880-1914
by:
Pamela Horn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings
41.
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age
by:
Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
3.77 avg rating β 1,679 ratings
42.
Their Noble Lordships: How to Tell a Duke From an Earl...And Other Mysteries Solved
by:
Simon Winchester
3.46 avg rating β 191 ratings
43.
In a Gilded Cage: From Heiress to Duchess
by:
Marian Fowler
4.02 avg rating β 121 ratings
44.
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating β 13,808 ratings
45.
Wedlock
by:
Wendy Moore
3.92 avg rating β 1,852 ratings
46.
Ladies In Waiting: From The Tudors To The Present Day
by:
Anne Somerset
3.67 avg rating β 316 ratings
47.
The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess---in Her Own Words
by:
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
3.57 avg rating β 2,304 ratings
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Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
by:
Jeremy Musson
3.69 avg rating β 451 ratings
49.
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.92 avg rating β 1,815 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
by:
Alison Weir
3.77 avg rating β 7,831 ratings
51.
The First Lady Diana: Lady Diana Spencer 1710-1735
by:
Victoria Massey
3.83 avg rating β 18 ratings
52.
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de JanzΓ©
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating β 572 ratings
53.
The Pale Abyssinian: The Life of James Bruce
by:
Miles Bredin
4.11 avg rating β 37 ratings
54.
Improper Pursuits: The Scandalous Life of an Earlier Lady Diana Spencer
by:
Carola Hicks
3.57 avg rating β 44 ratings
55.
Wellington: A Personal History
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.86 avg rating β 205 ratings
55.
Selected Letters
by:
Madame de SΓ©vignΓ©
3.77 avg rating β 414 ratings
57.
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
by:
Tim Parks
3.61 avg rating β 1,371 ratings
58.
The Borgias and Their Enemies: 1431-1519
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.74 avg rating β 2,897 ratings
59.
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by:
Sarah Bradford
3.72 avg rating β 4,657 ratings
60.
The Book of the Courtier
by:
Baldassare Castiglione
3.61 avg rating β 2,745 ratings
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Adventure, romance and war in the Far East: The Iris Hay-Edie Diary: A historical memoir
by:
Iris Hay-Edie
4.28 avg rating β 160 ratings
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
by:
Fiona Carnarvon
3.74 avg rating β 3,629 ratings
63.
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife And The Missing Corpse
by:
Piu Marie Eatwell
3.31 avg rating β 1,665 ratings
64.
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
by:
Greg King
3.73 avg rating β 554 ratings
65.
Murder of a Medici Princess
by:
Caroline P. Murphy
3.94 avg rating β 1,333 ratings
66.
An Infamous Mistress: The Life, Loves and Family of the Celebrated Grace Dalrymple Elliot
by:
Joanne Major
3.86 avg rating β 44 ratings
67.
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
by:
Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating β 2,581 ratings
68.
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
by:
Anne Somerset
3.64 avg rating β 1,020 ratings
69.
Blenheim 1704: The Duke of Marlboroughβs masterpiece (Campaign, 141)
by:
John Tincey
3.67 avg rating β 27 ratings
69.
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
by:
Deborah Cadbury
4.20 avg rating β 2,414 ratings
71.
The Aristocracy and the Great War
by:
Gerald Gliddon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
72.
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
by:
Flora Fraser
3.89 avg rating β 2,543 ratings
72.
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
by:
Ivan Morris
4.04 avg rating β 935 ratings
74.
The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.94 avg rating β 3,218 ratings
74.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.94 avg rating β 38,047 ratings
76.
The Aristocracy of Norman England
by:
Judith A. Green
3.50 avg rating β 14 ratings
76.
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
by:
Alison Weir
3.82 avg rating β 5,039 ratings
78.
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.84 avg rating β 1,380 ratings
79.
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs. Norton
by:
Diane Atkinson
3.67 avg rating β 157 ratings
80.
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles
by:
Robert Sackville-West
3.67 avg rating β 288 ratings
81.
British Country House in the Eighteenth Century
by:
Christopher Christie
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
81.
The Spencers: A Personal History of an English Family
by:
Charles Spencer
3.78 avg rating β 220 ratings
81.
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
by:
Tracy Borman
3.90 avg rating β 1,659 ratings
84.
Fanny Burney: A Biography
by:
Claire Harman
3.90 avg rating β 117 ratings
85.
Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, lady Lyttelton, 1787-1870
by:
Sarah Spencer Lyttelton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
86.
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
by:
Elizabeth Norton
3.93 avg rating β 575 ratings
87.
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
by:
Amanda Vickery
3.87 avg rating β 522 ratings
87.
Ungrateful Daughters: The Stuart Princesses Who Stole Their Father's Crown
by:
Maureen Waller
3.85 avg rating β 635 ratings
89.
Nelson: A Personal History
by:
Christopher Hibbert
3.84 avg rating β 134 ratings
89.
Life in the Victorian Country House
by:
Pamela Horn
4.04 avg rating β 25 ratings
89.
The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade
by:
John Guy
3.38 avg rating β 8 ratings
92.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
by:
Alison Weir
3.93 avg rating β 16,522 ratings
93.
Life Below Stairs: in the Victorian and Edwardian Country House
by:
SiΓ’n Evans
3.96 avg rating β 273 ratings
93.
All the Queen's Men: The World of Elizabeth I
by:
Peter Brimacombe
3.51 avg rating β 49 ratings
95.
Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating β 5,178 ratings
96.
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
by:
Sarah Gristwood
3.96 avg rating β 2,228 ratings
97.
The Marlborough House Set
by:
Anita Leslie
3.86 avg rating β 28 ratings
97.
Princesse of Versaille
by:
Charles Elliott
4.33 avg rating β 42 ratings
99.
LAST CURTSEY
by:
Fiona MacCarthy
3.56 avg rating β 172 ratings
100.
The Treasure of the City of Ladies
by:
Christine de Pizan
3.63 avg rating β 558 ratings
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