We recently read The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport, and found it unputdownable! With that title in mind, a new royal baby in the offing, the recent passing of the Duchess of Devonshire (last of the six Mitford sisters), and the Scottish referendum recently in the news, we thought that now would be a good time for royal readalikes! Here's a few likely non-fiction and fiction titles for the ardent monarchist and followers of famous families throughout history.
Non-Fiction
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julia P. Gelardi
The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 by Stella Tillyard
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter by Matthew Dennison
We Two: Victoria and Albert - Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, The Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
Not In Front of the Corgis: Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains by Brian Hoey
The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain by Allan Massie
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey - A Tudor Tragedy by Leanda de Lisle
The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World Into Which They Married by Elisabeth Kehoe
Five Sisters: The Langhorne Sisters of Virginia by James Fox
Fiction
The Tsarina's Daughter by Carolly Erickson
Elizabeth I by Margaret George
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Duchess: A Novel of Sarah Churchill by Susan Holloway Scott
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
The Complete Tudors: Nine Historical Novels by Jean Plaidy [eBook]
The Secret Daughter of the Tsar by Jennifer Laam
Girl on the Golden Coin: A Novel of Frances Stuart by Marci Jefferson
Links
Masterpiece Theatre: Love In a Cold Climate (Mitford Sisters)
BBC Two: Russia's Lost Princesses
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