What are some good novels about British royalty?

Question

You know...the truth with someone else's spin on it.

Answer 1

Anything by Phillipa Gregory for fiction.  She's a historian and has a whole collection on the Tudors.  However it is fiction based on truth.  Fantastic read, I can't put any of her books. down.

Answer 2

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory is a great read and is based on truth, and persistent rumour! (Even if you've seen the movie, the book covers a lot more ground.) Published in 2001, Gregory has since  written another four or five historical novels on the Tudor monarchs.

There were two volumes by David Butler on Edward VII (son of Queen Victoria) that were really excellent. I think they were the basis of a television miniseries in the late 1970s. The pocketbook versions I got were Vol. I: Edward the King, Prince of Hearts and Vol.II: Edward the King, Monarch among Men but I think they were originally issued as Edward VII: Prince of Hearts / The Peacemaker.

Answer 3

Lillie by David Butler;it's about Edward VII and Lillie Langtry.It's pretty factual but of course quite nice about the subjects. The other book mentioned is also excellent,but Edward VII by David Butler is so filled with information you forget that you're reading a dramatization,it's that good!I highly recommend it. And if you can get the DVD of the program,you will be quite entertained!

I tend to stick to biographies which still gives the author's spin on things.

Answer 4

Octavian Nothing, i think

Answer 5

"I'm currently enjoying Rosalind Miles' "I, Elizabeth" (New York:  Three Rivers, 1994), but earlier this month, I finished C. J. Sansom's "Sovereign" (London: Penguin, 2006), which centers around a lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, who investigates mysteries for Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief Minister from 1532 to 1540.  Sansom has written two other very well-researched mystery novels that focus on Henry VIII's reign--"Dark Fire" (2004) and "Dissolution" ((2004).  All of these historical novels make for entertaining, but informative, summer reading!