BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty

Ashoka

Portrait of a Philosopher King

by Patrick Olivelle

Cleopatra

Her History, Her Myth

Ancient Lives

by Francine Prose

Demetrius

Sacker of Cities

Ancient Lives

by James Romm

Julian

Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor

Ancient Lives

by Philip Freeman

The Life of Louis XVI

by John Hardman

Theoderic the Great

King of Goths, Ruler of Romans

by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer

Translated by John Noel Dillon

Henry III

Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement, 1258-1272

The English Monarchs Series

by David Carpenter

Ramesses the Great

Egypt's King of Kings

Ancient Lives

by Toby Wilkinson

Henry V

The Conscience of a King

by Malcolm Vale

Artful Subversion

Empress Dowager Cixi's Image Making

by Ying-chen Peng

The Story of Tutankhamun

An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King

by Garry J. Shaw

The Tudors

Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

by Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker

Contributions by Marjorie E. Wieseman and Sarah Bochicchio

Edward the Confessor

Last of the Royal Blood

The English Monarchs Series

by Tom Licence

King Arthur

The Making of the Legend

by Nicholas J. Higham

Marie-Antoinette

The Making of a French Queen

by John Hardman

Richard III

The Self-Made King

by Michael Hicks