In the News: The British Royal Family

December 1, 2017 | melissa c

With Prince Harry's engagement to actress Meghan Markle, an American will join the British family for the first time since King Edward abdicated the throne and married Wallis Simpson in 1937. We've put together this book list (in reverse-chronological order) on British kings and queens, princes and princesses, to satisfy all your royal history and gossip needs. Check the end of the list for films and tv shows. 

Game of crowns : Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the throne by Christopher P Andersen
Also available in: e-book
A royal duty by Paul Burrell
The Diana chronicles by Tina Brown
Also available in: e-audiobook
Diana in search of herself : portrait of a troubled princess by Sally Bedell Smith
Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life by Sally Bedell Smith
Also available in: e-book | audiobook
Prince Philip : the turbulent early life of the man who married Queen Elizabeth II by Philip Eade
Her majesty : Queen Elizabeth II and her court by Robert Hardman
Young Elizabeth : the making of the Queen by Kate Williams
Also available in: e-audiobook
The Queen Mother : the official biography by William Shawcross
That woman : the life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor by Anne Sebba
The Windsor story by J. Bryan
Princes at war : the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII by Deborah Cadbury
Also available in: e-book | e-audiobook
Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise by Lucinda Hawksley
Also available in: e-book
Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury
A royal affair : George III and his scandalous siblings by S. K Tillyard
A royal experiment : the private life of King George III by Janice Hadlow
The royal Stuarts : a history of the family that shaped Britain by Allan Massie
After Elizabeth : the rise of James of Scotland and the struggle for the throne of England by Leanda De Lisle
Tudors versus Stewarts : the fatal inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots by Linda Porter
The temptation of Elizabeth Tudor : Elizabeth I, Thomas Seymour, and the making of a Virgin Queen by Elizabeth Norton
Also available in: e-audiobook
With the heart of a king : Elizabeth I of England, Philip II of Spain, and the fight for a nation's soul and crown by Benton Rain Patterson
The pirate queen : Queen Elizabeth I, her merchant adventures, and the dawn of empire by Susan Ronald
Also available in: e-audiobook
She-wolves : the women who ruled England before Elizabeth by Helen Castor
Also available in: video
The private lives of the Tudors : uncovering the secrets of Britain's greatest dynasty by Tracy Borman
Also available in: e-book
Tudor : passion, manipulation, murder, the story of England's most notorious royal family by Leanda De Lisle
Tudors : the history of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I by Peter Ackroyd
Also available in: e-audiobook
Three sisters, three queens by Philippa Gregory
Also available in: audiobook | e-audiobook | large print

*historical fiction

The sisters who would be queen : Mary, Katherine, and Lady Jane Grey : a Tudor tragedy by Leanda De Lisle
Also available in: e-book | audiobook | e-audiobook
The children of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Also available in: e-book
The creation of Anne Boleyn : a new look at England's most notorious queen by Susan Bordo
Also available in: e-book
The Wars of the Roses : the fall of the Plantagenets and the rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
Also available in: e-book | audiobook

TV and Film

Henry V [videodisc]
The Tudors. The complete first season, Discs 1 & 2 [videodisc]
Wolf hall [videodisc]
Anne of the thousand days [videodisc] ; Mary, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth [videodisc]
Elizabeth, the golden age [videodisc]
Elizabeth I [videodisc]
Victoria. Season 1. Disc 1 & 2 [videodisc]
Wallis & Edward [videodisc]
The crown. Season 1. Disc 1 & 2 [videodisc]
The Queen [videodisc]
The queen's garden [videodisc]
Elizabeth at 90 [videodisc]
The Windsors [videodisc] : from George to Kate : Britain's royal family in the modern era