Table of Contents

The Normans; the Angevins; the Plantagenets; the House of Lancaster; the House of York; the Tudors; the Stuarts; the Tudors; the House of Hanover; the House of Saxe Coburg-Gotha; the House of Windsor.

Promotional Information

The Kings and Queens of England is a richly informative guide to England's royal heritage, offering authoritative biographies of every one of the 40 monarchs to sit on the throne of England since 1066. Covering over nine hundred years of English history from the Normans to the Windsors, it tells an epic tale of invasion, usurpation, war, peace, revolution and the building and dismantling of an empire. The biographies are written by a team of distinguished period experts (including John Gillingham on the Norman kings, John Clarke on the House of Hanover and Andrew Roberts on the Windsors), and introduced and edited by the acclaimed historian Antonia Fraser.

About the Author

Since 1969, Antonia Fraser has written many acclaimed historical works which have been international bestsellers, including Marie Antoinette, Mary Queen of Scots (James Tait Black Memorial Prize), Cromwell: Our Chief of Men, The Six Wives of Henry VIII and The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605 (St Louis Literary Award; CWA Non-Fiction Gold Dagger). Antonia Fraser was made CBE in 1999, and awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2000. She is married to the playwright Harold Pinter and lives in London.