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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 Madame de Maintenon, Duchess of Burgundy of Savoy Marie Adelaide, duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans

by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

by Edgcumbe Staley

by Thornton Hall

by J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald) Molloy

by Henrietta Haynes

by Anna Harriette Leonowens

by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss
by Jules Michelet

by Various Authors

by Cesáreo Fernández Duro

by F. H. (François Henri) Turpin

by Charles Bradlaugh

by Raphael Holinshed

by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

by Marius Topin

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by Paul Thureau-Dangin

by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay

by Various Authors

by marquise de Jeanne Antoinette Poisson Pompadour

by August Strindberg

by Count Anthony Hamilton

by Duke of Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Buckingham and Chandos

by John Leslie Garner

by Walter Scott

by Marie Belloc Lowndes

by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

by Fanny Burney

by Charles Greville

by Jules Michelet

by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

by Mite Kremnitz

by Joseph McCabe

by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett

by Clara Tschudi

by Paul Thureau-Dangin

by R. de (Régis) Chantelauze

by Infanta of Spain Eulalia

by Margrave of Bayreuth consort of Friedrich Margravine Wilhelmine

by Arthur de Marsy

by Jules Lemaître

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Madame de Montespan

by Gustave Nicole

by Henrik Ibsen

by Various Authors

by Barlow Cumberland

by Various Authors

by Thomas Mann

by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody, Maurice W. Brockwell

by Zuoguanlaoren

by German Emperor William II
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by G. le M. (George Le Mesurier) Gretton

by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland

by William O. S. Gilly

by Thomas Carlyle

by Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt consort of Ludwig IV Grand Duchess Alice

by Edmond Rostand

by Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton

by M. Beresford Ryley

by J. Donkersley, Jean Racine

by V. (Victoria) Sackville-West

by John Lord

by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

by Sir Seymour John Fortescue

by Lodovico Antonio Muratori

by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

by James Endell Tyler

by E. (Edith) Nesbit

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by duchesse d' Laure Junot Abrantès

by Raphael Holinshed

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

by Raphael Holinshed

by Sir Charles Edward Mallet

by duchesse d' Charlotte-Elisabeth Orléans

by J. Kemper

by Pietro Giannone

by Lodovico Antonio Muratori