Hard-to-Find Historical Fiction about British Monarchs
Explore rare and hard-to-find historical fiction books about British monarchs. Discover captivating novels that bring the lives of kings and queens to life in this curated list.
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The Merlin Trilogy
by Mary Stewart
The Arthurian legend is one of the most enduring and powerful of myths, and Mary Stewart's classic The Merlin Trilogy is one of its most …
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Avalon
by Anya Seton
This saga of yearning and mystery travels across oceans and continents to Iceland, Greenland, and North America during the time in history when Anglo-Saxons battled …
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A Hollow Crown
by Helen Hollick
Aged only thirteen, Emma, daughter of the Duke of Normandy, is married in a strategic alliance to King Aethelred of England. Inept and arrogant, Aethelred …
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The Last English King
by Julian Rathbone
Three years after William of Normandy's victory at Hastings in 1066, King Harold's only surviving bodyguard, emotionally and physically scarred by the loss of his …
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The Fatal Crown
by Ellen Jones
From shadowy intrigues at court and church, to battlefields where there are no victories, Maud and Stephen accept the destiny that forces them to surrender …
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Katherine
by Anya Seton
A biographical novel concerning the love affair between Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster, in fourteenth-century England.
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Legacy
by Susan Kay
Chronicles the story of England's Queen Elizabeth the First, a woman of intense passions and very human desires, and of the three men whose passionate …
