Nonfiction Books on the Aristocracy and High Society
101. 
The Profligate Son: Or, A True Story of Family Conflict, Fashionable Vice, and Financial Ruin in Regency Britain
by:
Nicola Phillips
3.79 avg rating — 96 ratings 
107. 
Ladies of the Manor: Wives and Daughters in Country-House Society, 1830-1918
by:
Pamela Horn
3.93 avg rating — 126 ratings 109. 
110. 
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
by:
Susan Nagel
3.72 avg rating — 398 ratings 
114. 
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 
116. 
Die Fugger: Geschichte einer Augsburger Familie, 1367-1650
by:
Mark Häberlein
4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings 116. 
120. 
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
by:
Miles J. Unger
4.06 avg rating — 960 ratings 
123. 
The Knight, the Lady & the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France
by:
Georges Duby
3.92 avg rating — 287 ratings 124. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 125. 
The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King 3.75 avg rating — 522 ratings
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129. 
Graven With Diamonds: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt. Courtier, Poet, Assassin, Spy
by:
Nicola Shulman
3.86 avg rating — 139 ratings 130. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 
131. 
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
133. 
Young Gentleman's Day: Book 2 Regency Life Series
by:
Suzi Love
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
133. 
The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty 3.81 avg rating — 1,342 ratings
133. 
Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
by:
Lauren Young
3.13 avg rating — 394 ratings 133. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 139. 
139. 
Splendour and Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
by:
Marcus Scriven
3.52 avg rating — 101 ratings 
139. 
139. 
Henry VIII's Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors
by:
David Baldwin
3.50 avg rating — 113 ratings 139. 
The Last American Aristocrat: The Biography of Ambassador David K.E. Bruce, 1898-1977 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
139. 
Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson
by:
Paul French
3.72 avg rating — 248 ratings 
148. 
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.76 avg rating — 854 ratings 148. 
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era
by:
Gareth Russell
4.02 avg rating — 1,745 ratings 155. 
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.16 avg rating — 3,929 ratings 
155. 
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
by:
Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating — 1,959 ratings 155. 
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
by:
Mark Girouard
4.21 avg rating — 296 ratings 155. 
The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando
by:
Paul Kix
4.03 avg rating — 1,689 ratings 161. 
THE RULING CASTE: IMPERIAL LIVES IN THE VICTORIAN RAJ
by:
David Gilmour
3.75 avg rating — 153 ratings 
165. 
165. 
Shi Ji: Li Shi De Chang Cheng = History Speaks: The Four Princes Of The Warring States
by:
Zhizhong Cai
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 165. 
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by:
Tom Burgis
4.04 avg rating — 2,734 ratings 
171. 
173. 
The Riviera Set: Glitz, Glamour, and the Hidden World of High Society
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating — 1,682 ratings 176. 
Tiaras and Tantrums: Twenty-five Years in Service at Kedleston Hall
by:
Yvonne Adams
3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings 
178. 
178. 
Castles, Customs, and Kings: True Tales by English Historical Fiction Authors
by:
Debra Brown
3.88 avg rating — 259 ratings 182. 
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan
by:
Laura Thompson
3.33 avg rating — 571 ratings 
185. 
Sir Francis Walsingham: A Courtier in an Age of Terror
by:
Derek Wilson
3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings 185. 
The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
by:
Mark Girouard
3.82 avg rating — 77 ratings 185. 
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings 189. 
Sweet Robin: A Biography of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 1533-1588
by:
Derek Wilson
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings 189. 
189. 
189. 
So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that Time Forgot
by:
Morgan Ring
4.10 avg rating — 121 ratings 
193. 
The Demon's Brood: A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
by:
Desmond Seward
3.58 avg rating — 520 ratings 193. 
The King's Servants: Men's Dress At The Accession Of Henry VIII
by:
Caroline Johnson
4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings 
198. 
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating — 39,204 ratings 
