Reading List: Royalty

By Philippa Gregory: (I love her work; she weaves a great story!)

• The Constant Princess
• The Boleyn Inheritance
• The Queen’s Fool
• The Virgin’s Lover
• The Other Queen
• The Lady of the Rivers
• The White Queen
• The Red Queen

By Jean Plaidy:

• To Hold the Crown (about Henry’s father Henry VII)
• Katherine of Aragon
• The Lady in the Tower
• The Rose Without a Thorn

By Margaret Campbell Barnes:

• My Lady of Cleves
• The Tudor Rose: The Story of the Queen Who United a Kingdom and Birthed a Dynasty
• King’s Fool: A Notorious King, His Six Wives, and the One Man Who Knew All Their Secrets

By Carolly Erickson:

• The Last Wife of Henry VIII

By Posie Graeme-Evans:

• The Uncrowned Queen (set during the War of the Roses, Henry VII’s time)

By Alison Weir:

• Innocent Traitor
• My Lady Elizabeth
• Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley
• Captive Queen

By Ella March Chase:

• The Virgin Queen’s Daughter

By Barbara Kyle:

• The Queen’s Lady
• The King’s Daughter

By Kate Emerson:

• Secrets of the Tudor Court: The Pleasure Palace
• Secrets of the Tudor Court: Between Two Queens

Royal Diaries Series – by Kathryn Lasky

• Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
• Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country, France, 1553

By Susanna Dunn:

• The Queen of Subtleties
• The Sixth Wife

By Margaret George

• Mary Queen of Scotland & The Isles: A Novel
• Cleopatra
• Henry VIII

By Laurien Gardner

• Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour

By Rosemary Hawley Jarman:

• The King’s Grey Mare

By Hilda Lewis:

• I, Jacqueline

By Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris:

• Queen’s Own Fool
• Girl In a Cage
• Princes Across the Waters
• The Rogues

By Sandra Worth:

• Lady of the Roses
• The King’s Daughter

By Jeanne Kalogridis:

• The Devil’s Queen
• The Scarlet Contessa
• I, Mona Lisa
• The Borgia Bride

By C. W. Gortner:

• The Last Queen

By Ann Rinaldi:

• Nine Days a Queen

By Carolyn Meyer:

• Beware, Princess Elizabeth
• Mary, Bloody Mary
• Anastasia, The Last Grand Duchess
• Isabel, the Jewel of Castilla
• Patience, Princess Catherine
• Doomed Queen Anne
• Duchessina
• The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette (coming April 2010)

By Michelle Moran:

• The Heretic Queen
• Nefertiti
• Cleopatra’s Daughter

By Jeane Westin:

• The Virgin’s Daughters
• His Last Letter