Royalty & Monarchy collects the biographies, court memoirs, and dynastic histories that have fascinated readers for centuries. Agnes Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England, Lytton Strachey’s brilliant portraits of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I, and Antonia Fraser’s predecessors in the art of royal biography all contribute to a shelf available entirely as free EPUB downloads.
The collection ranges across European dynasties — Tudor and Stuart England, Valois and Bourbon France, the Habsburgs, the Romanovs — and extends to medieval kingship and ancient courts. Whether you seek the political mechanics of hereditary power or the human dramas that unfold behind palace walls, this shelf provides primary memoirs and critical biographies in equal measure.
- The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With NotesKing of England Henry VIII
- Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethLucy Aikin
- Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, CompleteMadame Campan
- Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Completeduc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
- The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 1, 1837-1843Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 1 of 2)Alfred von Reumont
- London and the Kingdom – Volume 2 / A History Derived Mainly from the Archives at Guildhall in the Custody of the Corporation of the City of London.Reginald R. Sharpe
- The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 2, 1844-1853Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- Royal Edinburgh: Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and PoetsMrs. Oliphant
- The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century
- The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861Queen of Great Britain Victoria
- The Life of King Edward VII / with a sketch of the career of King George VJ. Castell Hopkins
- Royal Palaces and Parks of FranceM. F. Mansfield
- Coronation AnecdotesGiles Gossip
- The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IVCharles Greville
- Königliche Hoheit: RomanThomas Mann
- History of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1Henry Martyn Baird
- Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497Julia Cartwright
- Expansion and ConflictWilliam Edward Dodd
- Richard I / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third / From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2Duke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos
- NapoleonHerman Théodore Chappuis
- Charles I / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Royal HighnessThomas Mann
- Xerxes / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Histoire de France 1724-1759 (Volume 18/19)Jules Michelet
- Margaret of Anjou / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Mary Queen of Scots / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) / From the Original Family DocumentsDuke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos
- Pyrrhus / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.Mrs. A. T. Thomson
- Political Women, Vol. 1active 1840-1883 Sutherland Menzies
- Louis Philippe / Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott
- William the Conqueror / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- The French Revolution: A HistoryThomas Carlyle
- Nero / Makers of History SeriesJacob Abbott
- Louis XIV. / Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott
- Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477Ruth Putnam
- 宋史Tuotuo
- John LacklandKate Norgate
- The Kaiser's MemoirsGerman Emperor William II
- Richard II / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- The Counts of GruyèreAnna De Koven
- The reign of Mary TudorJames Anthony Froude
- 楊家將active 16th century Damu Xiong
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Lord Chamberlain" to "Luqman" / Volume 17, Slice 1Various
- A Revolução Portugueza: O 5 de Outubro (Lisboa 1910)Francisco Jorge de Abreu
- The Aristocracy of London: Part I: Kensington / Titled, Untitled, Professional, & CommercialAnonymous
- Mayfair, Belgravia, and BayswaterG. E. Mitton
- King Henry V / Arranged for Representation at the Princess's TheatreWilliam Shakespeare
- The Louvre: Fifty Plates in ColourPaul G. Konody
- A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5François Guizot
- King Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare
- Face to Face with KaiserismJames W. Gerard
- Anastasia: The Autobiography of H.I.H. the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna of RussiaEugenia Smith
- China RevolutionizedJohn Stuart Thomson
- Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third / From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1Duke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos
- The Life of Cardinal WolseyGeorge Cavendish
- Frederick the Great and the Rise of PrussiaWilliam Fiddian Reddaway
- The Life and Times of Queen Victoria; vol. 4 of 4Robert Wilson
- The Autobiography of an Indian PrincessMaharani of Cooch Behar Sunity Devee
- The Life of Cesare BorgiaRafael Sabatini
- Memoirs of the Empress Catherine II, Written by HerselfCatherine II
- France in the Nineteenth CenturyElizabeth Wormeley Latimer
- Pictures of the old French courtMrs. Bearne
- Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — CompleteLouis Constant Wairy
- History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5Edward Gibbon
- The City of Auckland, New Zealand, 1840-1920John Barr
- The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen VictoriaEdward Farr
- History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great.John S. C. Abbott
- Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her DayFerdinand Gregorovius
- History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the nameAlexander Mackenzie
- The Borgias / Celebrated CrimesAlexandre Dumas
- The castles and abbeys of England; Vol. 1 of 2 / from the national records, early chronicles, and other standard authorsWilliam Beattie
- Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 1 (of 3) / Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.James Dennistoun
- The Modern Regime, Volume 1Hippolyte Taine
- The True History of the State Prisoner, commonly called the Iron Mask / Extracted from Documents in the French ArchivesBaron George Agar Ellis Dover
- Henry VIII.A. F. Pollard
- Discovery of Witches / The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancasteractive 1612-1618 Thomas Potts
- Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — CompleteMadame de Montespan
- The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First, Volume 2 (of 2)Edward A. Freeman
- Queen VictoriaLytton Strachey
- Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official InformationQueensland
- The Correspondence of Madame, Princess Palatine, Mother of the Regent; of Marie-Adélaïde de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne; and of Madame de Maintenon, in Relation to Saint-CyrMadame de Maintenon
- Salve Venetia, gleanings from Venetian history; vol. IIF. Marion Crawford
- Chantilly in History and ArtLuise Richter
- The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. / From Henry VII. to MaryDavid Hume
- Memoirs of the Courts of Louis XV and XVI. — Complete / Being secret memoirs of Madame Du Hausset, lady's maid to Madame de Pompadour, and of the Princess LamballeMme. Du Hausset
- The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay
- The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 1Miss Pardoe
- Lady Jane Grey and Her TimesIda A. Taylor
- The French Revolution – Volume 1Hippolyte Taine
- The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891Ireland) Trinity College (Dublin
- Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) / Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630.James Dennistoun
- The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) / A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852Charles Greville
- The King's Mirror (Speculum regale-Konungs skuggsjá)
- A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, with a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French.Ida M. Tarbell
- A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4François Guizot
- A Short History of Italy (476-1900)Henry Dwight Sedgwick