7 Royal Historical Books Recommended by Jennifer Robson

Jennifer Robson is the USA Today and #1 Toronto Globe and Mail bestselling author of Somewhere in France and Goodnight from London. She holds a doctorate in British economic and social history from Saint Antony’s College, University of Oxford, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar and an SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. She lives in Toronto, Canada with her husband and young children. Her new book, The Gown, hits shelves December 31!

Historical literature that focuses on the empresses, queens, and princesses of the past is popular enough to qualify as its own sub-genre, and so the following represent only a handful of my favorite books about real-life royals who made history, ranked chronologically (with one outlier that is royal but not quite historical in scope). Read on for Jennifer Robson’s book recommendations.