The Kings and Queens of England

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I am currently reading Ken Follett's A Column of Fire and have used this gem of a reference several times throughout. The story of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, told through her clothes and jewellery - and a gorgeous gift to treasure. I know that sounds like the opposite of a good recommendation, but there's something restful and comforting about reading a short but excellently written and edited biographical sketch of some British monarch.

Accessible guide to the monarchs of both England and Scotland with extensive royal history distilled into a handy, compact format. Condensing the lives of more than nine centuries' worth of monarchs into one single volume of under 400 pages is no small task. Mainly it focuses on dates, conflicts (because English royalty lol), marriages, births, along side some very intriguing bits of palace gossip. A beautifully illustrated full-colour tribute to King Charles III, published to mark his coronation – from the bestselling creators of There Once Is a Queen.

The club of royal families of Europe that continually intermarried obviously made for some thorough genetic mixing.

The reader may think that Edward the 7th lived and operated in the same conditions as Henry the 7th some 350 years earlier. In his lively biographies, David Williamson's paints a vivid and sensitive portrait of each monarch, revealing the dramatic events and controversies that surrounded them.

From Alfred the Great burning the cakes, King John surrounded by his barons, the Plantagenet Kings, Henry the Eighth with Anne Boleyn, Charles the Second sitting for a portrait and many more fully captioned outline drawings, ready to colour and bring to life. From Alfred the Great to Charles III, each essay examines the monarch, their role and what they tell us about British history.