The Woman behind the man

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The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII 4.11 avg rating — 18,967 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
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The Paris Wife
The Paris Wife 3.82 avg rating — 302,768 ratings
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Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,456 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,062 ratings
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Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I 3.90 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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The Aviator's Wife
The Aviator's Wife 3.91 avg rating — 75,930 ratings
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 3.86 avg rating — 58,102 ratings
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Jennie
Jennie 3.97 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2
Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2 4.01 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1)
Here Be Dragons (Welsh Princes, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 24,741 ratings
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American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
American Jennie: The Remarkable Life of Lady Randolph Churchill 3.66 avg rating — 472 ratings
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife 3.25 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by: Julia Fox
3.72 avg rating — 4,235 ratings
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The Astronaut Wives Club
The Astronaut Wives Club 3.35 avg rating — 28,208 ratings
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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor 3.44 avg rating — 4,656 ratings
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen 3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings
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Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams 3.92 avg rating — 1,684 ratings
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The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn 3.84 avg rating — 7,631 ratings
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Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath
Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath 3.60 avg rating — 11,554 ratings
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Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny
Fanny Stevenson: A Romance of Destiny 4.08 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth 3.90 avg rating — 2,335 ratings
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Athénaïs
Athénaïs 3.78 avg rating — 908 ratings
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Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady
Madame Chiang Kai-shek: China's Eternal First Lady 3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Knight of the Purple Ribbon
Knight of the Purple Ribbon 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Mrs. Poe
Mrs. Poe 3.67 avg rating — 12,466 ratings
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Mrs. King: The Life & Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
Mrs. King: The Life & Times of Isabel Mackenzie King 3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Behave
Behave 3.54 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol 1 1884-1933
Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol 1 1884-1933 4.01 avg rating — 6,678 ratings
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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage 4.04 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Loving Frank
Loving Frank 3.77 avg rating — 100,844 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2 , The Defining Years, 1933-1938 4.30 avg rating — 1,800 ratings
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962 4.20 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The Lost Life of Eva Braun
The Lost Life of Eva Braun 3.74 avg rating — 690 ratings
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At the Mercy of the Queen
At the Mercy of the Queen 3.91 avg rating — 2,573 ratings
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Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own
Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own 3.88 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce
Price of Fame: The Honorable Clare Boothe Luce 3.83 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street
Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916: The View from Downing Street 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary
Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary 3.95 avg rating — 2,714 ratings
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The Queen's Promise
The Queen's Promise 3.70 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Refinements of Love: A Novel About Clover and Henry Adams
Refinements of Love: A Novel About Clover and Henry Adams 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn
The Queen of Subtleties: A Novel of Anne Boleyn 3.33 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen 4.03 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill to Eden
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill to Eden 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved
The Good Son: JFK Jr. and the Mother He Loved 3.85 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child 3.79 avg rating — 536 ratings
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Mademoiselle Boleyn
Mademoiselle Boleyn 3.97 avg rating — 6,103 ratings
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Madame de Maintenon: uncrowned queen of France
Madame de Maintenon: uncrowned queen of France 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Above All Things
Above All Things 3.69 avg rating — 3,905 ratings
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The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon
The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon 3.84 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife
The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife 3.41 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
Life of the Party: The Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman 3.74 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc
The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc 3.84 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
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The Ripper's Wife
The Ripper's Wife 3.29 avg rating — 309 ratings
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Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman
Reflected Glory: The Life of Pamela Churchill Harriman 3.82 avg rating — 274 ratings
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Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of King Edward II
Queen of Shadows: A Novel of Isabella, Wife of King Edward II 3.47 avg rating — 239 ratings
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Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic 3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors
Uncrowned Queen: The Life of Margaret Beaufort, Mother of the Tudors 4.16 avg rating — 996 ratings
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Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen 3.93 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici 3.93 avg rating — 7,364 ratings
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The Glitter and the Gold
The Glitter and the Gold 3.57 avg rating — 2,304 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle 3.64 avg rating — 20,492 ratings
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Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire 3.77 avg rating — 744 ratings
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Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey 3.74 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
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Eleanor the Queen
Eleanor the Queen 3.79 avg rating — 905 ratings
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The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
by: Greg King
4.16 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen 4.12 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Katya & the Prince of Siam
Katya & the Prince of Siam 3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings
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She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England 3.90 avg rating — 609 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years 4.04 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan
The Tiger Queens: the Women of Genghis Khan 4.25 avg rating — 1,748 ratings
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Isabella: The Warrior Queen 4.11 avg rating — 3,017 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 3.98 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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The Queen Mother: The Official Biography
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
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Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928) 4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings
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The African Queen
The African Queen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9,132 ratings
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Lady Clementine
Lady Clementine 3.84 avg rating — 32,318 ratings
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Queen Jezebel (Catherine de Medici #3)
Queen Jezebel (Catherine de Medici #3) 3.97 avg rating — 1,114 ratings
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That Churchill Woman
That Churchill Woman 3.72 avg rating — 4,625 ratings
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Isabeau: A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer (Isabella, #1)
Isabeau: A Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer (Isabella, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
And They Called It Camelot: A Novel of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 4.19 avg rating — 5,627 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England 3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2)
Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession (Six Tudor Queens #2) 4.14 avg rating — 12,112 ratings
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Bride of Glory: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Bride of Glory: The Story of Elizabeth Bacon Custer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5)
Katheryn Howard: The Scandalous Queen (Six Tudor Queens, #5) 4.10 avg rating — 6,883 ratings
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Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Janet and Jackie: The Story of a Mother and Her Daughter, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 3.88 avg rating — 154 ratings
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII 4.15 avg rating — 2,238 ratings
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The President's Lady: A Novel About Rachel and Andrew Jackson
The President's Lady: A Novel About Rachel and Andrew Jackson 3.95 avg rating — 1,843 ratings
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The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna 4.29 avg rating — 8,747 ratings
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Helen of Troy
Helen of Troy 3.95 avg rating — 11,992 ratings
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The Woman Before Wallis
The Woman Before Wallis 3.88 avg rating — 8,315 ratings
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Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation
Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation 3.78 avg rating — 102 ratings
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A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter
A Most English Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Daughter 3.74 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
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The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 180,703 ratings
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The Second Marriage
The Second Marriage
by: Gill Paul
4.16 avg rating — 7,501 ratings
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The Red Queen
The Red Queen 3.82 avg rating — 76,904 ratings
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The Duchess (Royal Outsiders, #2)
The Duchess (Royal Outsiders, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 2,532 ratings
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Duchess of Milan
Duchess of Milan 3.84 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Second Mrs. Astor
The Second Mrs. Astor
by: Shana Abe
3.97 avg rating — 69,243 ratings
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