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The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England

10 best books like The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England (Clifford Brewer): Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain, Doomed Queens, A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings, Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter, Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day, A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor, Queens of England, The History of King Richard III, Mad Kings & Queens, Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs

Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
AuthorMichael Farquhar
ISBN0812979044
Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world's most engaging royal historians

Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens...
Doomed Queens
AuthorKris Waldherr
ISBN0767928997
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...
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings
AuthorStella Tillyard
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,...
Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter
AuthorDiana Souhami
ISBN0312195176
Alice Keppel, the married lover of Queen Victoria's eldest son and great-grandmother to Camilla Parker-Bowles, was a key figure in Edwardian society. Hers was the acceptable face of adultery. Discretion was her hallmark. It was her art to be the king's mistress and yet to laud the Royal Family and the...
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day
AuthorNigel Cawthorne
ISBN1853755362
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The headlines of...
A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor
AuthorEdward Windsor
ISBN1853753033
Written in 1951, this is the autobiography of the late Duke of Windsor - great grandson of Queen Victoria, grandson of Edward VII, son of George V, and cousin of the German Emperor and the Czar of Russia. The book tells the story of the future king's early youth at Sandringham, his years at Naval School on...
Queens of England
AuthorNorah Lofts
ISBN0385127804
Norah Lofts' superb new book is an unusual evocation of English history, a chronicle told through the lives of the women who have over the centuries ruled as sovereigns in their own right, or as royal consorts. From Boadicea, who defied the Romans, to Elizabeth II, now celebrating 25 years on the throne,...
The History of King Richard III
AuthorThomas More
ISBN1843911078
Richard III’s reputation stands as one of the most evil men in history—a manipulating and murderous man who would stop at nothing to become king. Much of what modern scholarship knows of him stems from Thomas More’s critical biography, which itself proved the inspiration for Shakespeare’s...
Mad Kings & Queens
AuthorAlison Rattle
ISBN0760793115
This frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well...
Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
AuthorCarolly Erickson
ISBN0312316437
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...
Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day
AuthorAnne Somerset
ISBN0753819872
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...
In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa
AuthorJustin C. Vovk
ISBN0557060214
Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and Austri-Hungarian Queen in the 1700's, had 14 children, five of whom became rulers in their own right across Europe. This book follows the stories of those five children with bits and pieces of their other siblings, their children, the history and political landscape...
Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire
AuthorLeslie Carroll
ISBN0451229010
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...
Crowned in a Far Country: Portraits of Eight Royal Brides
AuthorPrincess Michael of Kent
ISBN0743296370
Though of eminent birth and status in their own right, the women of Crowned in a Far Country all left the countries of their birth to marry heirs to great thrones. They all shared an inbred sense of duty and a genuine desire to see it performed. None fought against what she saw as her destiny but only sought...
The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011
AuthorAlison Weir
ISBN0091943779
This book takes an informative and entertaining look at royal weddings through English history.

The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings from 1066 to the present...
Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary But True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest series)
AuthorGeoff Tibballs
ISBN1861058276
A quick, interesting read.

Not for those interested in truly learning history, as no references are given. This book reads almost like a tabloid newspaper. Interesting and fun, but not reliable in the least.

Also frustrating were some of the unnecessary comments the author added...
Alice, The Enigma - A Biography of Queen Victoria's Daughter
AuthorChristina Croft
Of all Queen Victoria’s nine children, none was more intriguing than her second daughter, Alice. The contradictions in her personality are so striking that, while she has often been overshadowed by her more illustrious brother, King Edward VII, and her brilliant sister, the German Empress Frederick,...
Kate: The Making of a Princess
AuthorClaudia Joseph
ISBN1845965779
With her glossy dark hair, classic looks, natural appearance and cut-glass accent, Kate Middleton displays all the poise and breeding expected from the wife-to-be of the heir to the throne. Sophisticated beyond her years, Kate has charmed William's louche circle of friends as well as the House of...
The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries
AuthorJan Bondeson
ISBN0393326446
Jan Bondeson, M.D., focuses his medical expertise and insightful wit on the great unsolved mysteries of disputed identity of the last two hundred years. Did the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette really die in the Temple Tower, or did the Lost Dauphin reappear among the throngs of pretenders to the...
Clean and Decent: The Fascinating History of the Bathroom and WC
AuthorLawrence Wright
ISBN0141390352
I think I have really taken for granted the development of bathroom fixtures and plumbing! Many, many people have tinkered and toiled with baths, basins, and toilets over hundreds of years, to make them the models of efficiency and cleanliness (generally speaking of course), that we have come to expect...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation
AuthorGeoffrey Hindley
ISBN0786717386
Starting A.D. 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the ‘Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired by the warrior world of the Old English poem...
Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery
AuthorJesse Sage
ISBN1403973245

Today, millions of people are being held in slavery around the world. From poverty-stricken countries to affluent American suburbs, slaves toil as sweatshop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. With exposés by seven former slaves--as well as one slaveholder--from...
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians
AuthorRichard Sugg
ISBN0415674174
Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, when kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribed, swallowed or wore human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin against epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague,...
Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty
AuthorKarl Shaw
ISBN0767907558
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...
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