In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory
10 best books like In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory (Julia P. Gelardi): An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens, Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess, Doomed Queens, Madame de Pompadour: A Life, The Secret Wife of Louis XIV: Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame de Maintenon, Katherine Swynford, A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings, Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter, Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours
| Author | Hannah Pakula |
| ISBN | 0684842165 |
A truly masterful book. Pakula pulls together everything from social theory to medical history to thousands of letters to create a portrait of the Empress Dowager Frederick. The first born and cleverest child of Queen Victoria, Vicky married the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick. Theirs was a truly...
Queens Consort: England's Medieval Queens
| Author | Lisa Hilton |
| ISBN | 0297852612 |
Occupying a unique position in the mercurial, often violent world of medieval state-craft, England’s medieval queens were elemental in shaping the history of the monarchy and the nation. Lisa Hilton’s meticulously researched new work explores the lives of the 20 women crowned between 1066...
Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
| Author | James Chambers |
| ISBN | 1905847238 |
The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: “I could no more write a romance than an epic poem.”
Charlotte was the...
| Author | Kris Waldherr |
| ISBN | 0767928997 |
Illicit love, madness, betrayal—it isn't always good to be the queen.
Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison...
| Author | Évelyne Lever |
| ISBN | 0312310501 |
A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons
When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart from the royal court, the beautiful Jeanne Antoinette...
| Author | Veronica Buckley |
| ISBN | 0374158304 |
Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned traitor and murderer, her mother the warden’s seduced daughter. A timely pardon and a hopeful Caribbean colonial venture failed to mend the...
| Author | Jeannette Lucraft |
| ISBN | 0750932619 |
Wife to the son of a king, mother of numerous important people and the ancestress of many of the royal houses of Europe, Katherine Swynford is someone whose importance to history is not reflected in the documents and written record of the time she lived. No letters written by her survive and not even her...
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings
The acclaimed author of Aristocrats returns with a major new book that reveals the story of a regal family plagued by scandal and notoriety and trapped by duty, desire, and the protocols of royalty.
History remembers King George III of England as the mad monarch who lost America. But as a young man,...
Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
| Author | Susan Nagel |
| ISBN | 1596910577 |
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women—Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
| Author | Princess Michael of Kent |
The royal European courts were unsurpassed for their glamour, wealth, fame, danger, treachery, and politics. The royal mistress was at the center of that world -- admired for her beauty and sensuality; feared for the power she wielded; even vilified, envied, and resented. In times when women had very...
| Author | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 0312316437 |
From medieval conqueror to Renaissance autocrat to Victorian Empress to modern melodrama, Royal Panoply is the story of some of the most fascinating people in world history.
With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose, and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson...
| Author | Anne Somerset |
| ISBN | 0753819872 |
Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune...
| Author | Leslie Carroll |
| ISBN | 0451229010 |
Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love—and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia’s Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine...
Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England
| Author | Maureen Waller |
| ISBN | 0312338015 |
"In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. "
In the last millennium there...
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
| Author | Katie Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0393060799 |
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy ”a history worthy of Shakespeare.
It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage...
She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 0750947357 |
This history deals with the bad girls of England's medieval royal dynasties, the queens who earned themselves a notorious reputation. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biography—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France, and Anne Boleyn, for example—while...
Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz
| Author | John Van der Kiste |
| ISBN | 0750930527 |
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste...
Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty
| Author | Karl Shaw |
| ISBN | 0767907558 |
An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.
Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear...
An intimate and revealing look at the daily lives and responsibilities of the Tudor Queens of England
From Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, to Elizabeth I, her grand-daughter and the last, "The Tudor Queens of England" delves into the secret lives of some of the most...
The Lonely Empress: Elizabeth of Austria
| Author | Joan Haslip |
| ISBN | 1842120980 |
Empress Elizabeth was considered the most beautiful woman in Europe. Joan Haslip shows her living life on her terms, ignoring the wishes of her husband, the needs of her children and the responsibilities of her position. Doing what she wanted did not make her happy and her maintenance and emotional...
Arbella: England's Lost Queen
| Author | Sarah Gristwood |
| ISBN | 0618341331 |
An extraordinary life lost in history: the compelling biography of Arbella Stuart spans both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompasses espionage, a clandestine marriage, imprisonment and eventual death in the Tower of London.Arbella Stuart was the niece of Mary Queen of Scots and first cousin to James...
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
| Author | Matthew Dennison |
| ISBN | 0312376987 |
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother—a powerful and insightful look into two women of signifcant importance and infuence in world history.
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince...
