Keeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreBook Review: Churchill and the King
/King George VI and Winston Churchill forged a remarkable working relationship during the trying years of World War II - a new book looks at how it happened, and why
Read MoreBook Review: Counting One's Blessings
/The official biographer of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother now gives us that most unlikely of things: a collection of her life-long correspondence
Read MoreBook Review: Princess Elizabeth's Spy
/The redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II
Read MoreWhat the Duchess of Argyll's Maid told Dicky Pigg-Wilcott's Valet at Ascot in '08!
/Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was a cherished and beloved fixture of the British royal family for almost a century (and would certainly have stolen the show at her daughter's Diamond Jubilee, had she lived to see it) - but a new book claims the Queen Mum was just an ordinary human being - and not always a very nice one
Read MoreKeeping Up With the Windsors - The Invisible Woman
/She's occupied the throne of Great Britain and the Commonwealth for 60 years, and in June Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee. Three new biographies try to understand the woman wearing the crown.
Read MoreBook Review: That Woman
/A new biography of Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom a King of England abdicated
Read MoreOn Reading a Five-Volume Biography of Prince Albert
/Maligned as nothing but handsome breeding stock, this German import did more to redefine the role of the monarchy than any subsequent royal, consort or king.
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