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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 Henry Glassford Bell

by Albert Frederick Calvert

by Maurice Francis Egan

by Freeman Bunting

by J. Paul Hudson

by England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons, Henry Elsynge

by Pietro Giannone

by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

by William Fiddian Reddaway

by Empress of Russia Catherine II

by Sir David Oswald Hunter Blair

by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt

by Bulstrode Whitelocke

by King of the Hawaiian Islands Kamehameha IV

by J. van (Jacob) Lennep, W. J. (Willem Jacobszoon) Hofdijk

by Walter Jerrold

by Jean-H. (Jean-Hippolyte) Mariéjol

by Arvède Barine

by duc de Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon

by Jules Michelet

by German Emperor William I

by Alphonse Daudet

by Hyacinthe Corne

by William Shakespeare

by Elias Ashmole

by Princess of Belgium Louise

by C. A. Campbell

by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

by German Emperor William II

by Arvède Barine

by Arthur Poyser

by Albert Frederick Calvert

by comte Maurice Fleury

by John McGilchrist

by Charles de Batz-Trenquelléon

by Spenser Wilkinson

by Mrs. A. T. Thomson

by Jean Le Rond d' Alembert

by William Benham

by Various Authors

by Olaf Johan Hultgren

by A. de (Alcide) Beauchesne

by Alexander Falconer Murison

by Kate Norgate

by John Charles Tarver

by Charlotte Kellogg

by Duchesse de Louise Elisabeth Tourzel

by Kate Norgate

by Arthur Griffiths

by John Stuart Hay

by W. O. von Horn

by Thomas Longueville

by Johanna Maria Sielof

by M. (Jean Baptiste Honoré Raymond) Capefigue

by Herman Bang

by comte Maurice Fleury

by Anne Topham

by Carl Küchler

by Francis Johnson

by Joseph McCabe

by Marquis of George Savile Halifax

by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

by J. R. Henslowe

by Hong Ge

by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

by Beatrice Home

by Holloway Halstead Frost

by Etienne Achille Réveil

by R. (Raymond) Rey

by Various Authors

by Luciano Cordeiro

by Anonymous

by King of Great Britain Edward VII

by Anonymous

by Albert Frederick Calvert

by Eugenia Smith

by Luise Richter

by Tryphon E. Euangelides

by jin shi 834 Chuhui Zheng

by John Henry Ingram

by Mary French Caldwell

by Fernando del Pulgar

by Franz Kühn

by A. (André) Le Glay

by Anonymous

by Thomas Blount

by Various Authors

by Clara Tschudi

by Anonymous

by active 11th century Wenying

by Stanley F. Horn