Elizabeth and Essex

Giles Lytton Strachey

1928

The Virgin's Lover

Philippa Gregory

2004 ★ 3.8

Sex with Kings

Eleanor Herman

2004

Madame de Pompadour

Nancy Mitford

1968

Love and Louis XIV

Antonia Fraser

2006

The imperial harem

Leslie P. Peirce

1994

Gay Lord Robert

Eleanor Burford

1970

The Greatest Knight

Elizabeth Chadwick

2006 ★ 4.7

The Perfect Royal Mistress

Diane Haeger

2007

The Queen's favourites

Eleanor Burford

1978

Madame DuBarry

Joan Haslip

1992

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

Ophelia Field, Oliver Peter Field

2002

Madame de Pompadour

Catherine Temerson, Evelyne Lever

2002

V

Victoria & Abdul

Shrabani Basu

2011

The janissary tree

Jason Goodwin

2006

The King in Love

Theo Aronson

1988

Duchess

Susan Holloway Scott

2006

Royal Paramours

Dulcie M. Ashdown

1987

Madame de Pompadour

Margaret Crosland

2000

The serpent and the moon

Michael of Kent, Princess.

2004

Madame de Pompadour

Christine Pevitt

2002

Prince of Princes

Simon Sebag-Montefiore, Sebag Montefiore

2001

The snake stone

Jason Goodwin

2007

Elizabeth & Leicester

Sarah Gristwood

2007

A Lady Raised High

Laurien Gardner

2006

The secret wife of Louis XIV

Veronica Buckley

2008

Nell Gwynn

Charles Beauclerk

2005

Royal affairs

Leslie Carroll

2008

The queen and the gypsy

Constance Heaven

1977

Prince of Europe

Philip Mansel

2005