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Step behind the throne and into a world of dynastic ambition, whispered scandal, glittering courts, and prison towers. From Viking kings and Renaissance queens to Louis XIV’s dazzling court and Napoleon’s inner circle, these audiobooks reveal royalty not as legend, but as drama lived in real time. Crowned with power and shadowed by betrayal, this shelf brings history’s most famous names startlingly close.

by Jules Michelet

by Maanpakolainen

by Giles Gossip

by Louis Constant Wairy

by William Hickling Prescott

by Francis Parkman

by George McKinnon Wrong

by Charles Plummer

by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

by Walter Besant

by Selina A. Bower

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Lytton Strachey

by Kenneth Hotham Vickers

by F. M. (Frank Merry) Stenton

by Lewis Goldsmith

by Thomas Carlyle

by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

by Thomas Carlyle

by Alphonse de Lamartine

by J. van (Jacob) Lennep

by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe

by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

by James Anthony Froude

by William Hickling Prescott

by Imbert de Saint-Amand

by John Lord

by Thomas De Quincey

by Various Authors

by Charles W. Snell

by Rui de Pina

by Paulos Karolides

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by Carl Küchler

by Mme. Du Hausset, princesse de Marie Thérèse Louise de Savoie-Carignan Lamballe

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

by Louis Constant Wairy

by Ellen Fries

by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Ferdinand Gregorovius

by Thomas Carlyle

by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

by baron Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon

by Duarte Galvão

by Rui de Pina

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

by James Dennistoun

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

by William Shakespeare

by Edward Ingle

by Raphael Holinshed

by King of France consort of Henry IV Queen Marguerite

by Stendhal
by Lewis Goldsmith

by Rui de Pina

by Herodotus

by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

by Hippolyte Taine

by William Hickling Prescott

by John Ashton

by Sir Lascelles Wraxall

by Lytton Strachey

by Frank Fox

by Adolphe Thiers

by John Lothrop Motley

by Xenophon

by Princess Catherine Radziwill

by Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova

by baron de Etienne-Léon Lamothe-Langon

by Annie Russell Marble

by Paul Thureau-Dangin

by Laurence Housman

by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

by J.-C.-L. Simonde de (Jean-Charles-Léonard Simonde) Sismondi

by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

by Jacob Abbott

by Rafael Sabatini

by Count Anthony Hamilton

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

by Elisha Benjamin Andrews

by Eva March Tappan

by Paul Thureau-Dangin

by James P. Smythe

by Edmond Texier

by Alphonse de Lamartine

by Thomas Carlyle

by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

by Thomas Carlyle

by Jean Héroard

by Imbert de Saint-Amand

by Thomas Carlyle