Elizabeth and Essex

Giles Lytton Strachey

1928

The glitter and the gold

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

1952 ★ 4.0

Katherine Swynford

Alison Weir

2007

Arbella

Sarah Gristwood

2005

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

Amanda Foreman

1998 ★ 3.0

To marry an English Lord

Gail MacColl

1989

The Borgias and their enemies

Christopher Hibbert, Mary Hollingsworth, John Telfer

2008

The Mitfords

Charlotte Mosley

2008

An Elegant Madness

Venetia Murray

1999

Courtiers

Lucy Worsley, Heather Wilds

2010

The Wars of the Roses

Desmond Seward

1995

Blood and Roses

Helen Castor

2004

Royal feud

Michael Thornton

1985

The Women of the Cousins' War

Michael Jones, Philippa Gregory, Baldwin, David

2011

The Duchess

Penny Junor

2017

Lady Almina and the real Downton Abbey

Carnarvon, Fiona Countess of

2011

Mistress of the Monarchy

Alison Weir

2009

Their noble lordships

Simon Winchester

1984

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

Ophelia Field, Oliver Peter Field

2002

The sisters who would be queen

Leanda De Lisle

2009

Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough

Hugo Vickers

1980

Snowdon

Anne De Courcy

2008

A Royal Affair

Stella Tillyard

2006

The age of scandal

T. H. White

1950

Althorp

Charles Spencer, Earl Spencer

1999

Wait for me!

Devonshire, Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford Cavendish Duchess of

2010

The last of the Duchess

Caroline Blackwood

1995

Duchess

Stephen Birmingham

1981

Children of the great country houses

Adeline Hartcup

1982

The dukes of Britain

Arthur Foss

1986