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Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743

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Elisabeth: The Princess Bride, Austria - Hungary, 1853

Barry Denenberg · 151 pages

The diary of Princess Elisabeth, written in 1853-1854, describing her engagement and marriage to her cousin Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Includes historical notes concerning her life as Empress.

Diary FormatRoyal CourtPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466

Carolyn Meyer · 204 pages

Isabel: Jewel of Castilla is a fictional diary of Isabella the first who reigned Castile (now Spain) in the 15th century. Isabel is the daughter of Juan II of Castilla and Isabel I of Portugal. Her father dies and her mother goes into a deep state of depression. Isabel’s brothers Enrique and Alfonso divide the kingdom, each proclaiming that they are the rightful king. They vie for control over Isa

Diary FormatRoyal CourtPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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Mary, Queen of Scots: Queen Without a Country

Kathryn Lasky · 202 pages

Mary, the young Scottish queen, is sent a diary from her mother in which she records her experiences living at the court of France's King Henry II as she awaits her marriage to Henry's son, Francis.

Diary FormatRoyal CourtPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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Lady of Palenque : Flower of Bacal, Mesoamerica, A.D. 749

Anna Kirwan · 204 pages

In 749, the Maya princess Green Jay, of the Kingdom of Bacal, writes in her diary about her arduous journey to Xukpip to meet King Fire Keeper, her future husband.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Sixsational

Meg Cabot · 238 pages

The novel that inspired the hit movie!Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultur

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesRoyal CourtMiddle Grade
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson · 336 pages

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesRoyal CourtHistorical Fiction
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Kaiulani: The People's Princess, Hawaii, 1889

Ellen Emerson White · 238 pages

Follows the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a better princess, even as Hawaii's monarchy, and her throne, are being undermined by American businessmen.

Diary FormatRoyal CourtPrinces and PrincessesMiddle Grade
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Assassin

Grace Cavendish · 201 pages

WHEN MARGARET CAVENDISH, one of Elizabeth I's Gentlewomen of the Bedchamber, lost her life in a bungled attempt to kill the Queen, her daughter, Lady Grace, became a protegee to the monarch, who takes Grace under her wing. Now Grace, a spunky girl who romps through the gardens with the laundry maids and court tumblers and rolls her eyes at her fellow ladies, chronicles the court intrigues that swi

Diary FormatRoyal CourtMiddle GradeTeen Protagonist
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The FitzOsbornes in Exile

Michelle Cooper · 460 pages

In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.

Diary FormatPrinces and PrincessesRoyal CourtHistorical Fiction
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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

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Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman · 218 pages

¨Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father only wants her to be married off, and profitably. Catherine herself hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddlar, a monk, a ministrel, a wart charmer... Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out only one: being sold like cheese to the hig

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionTeen Protagonist
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Betrayal

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 197 pages

Now that Lady Grace is the Queen's secret "Lady Pursuivant"--a title normally reserved for those who pursue wrongdoers of the Crown--she can hardly believe that a new mystery has fallen in her lap. But what else can it be when Lady Sarah, a fellow lady-in-waiting known for her fancy clothes and hoity-toity attitude, is missing and feared kidnapped by the dashing Captain Drake. Despite her hard fee

Diary FormatRoyal CourtMiddle GradeHistorical Fiction
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Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl

Patricia C. McKissack · 188 pages

Brought up in France as the African slave companion of a nobleman's daughter, thirteen-year-old Zettie records the events of 1763, when she and her mistress escape to the New World where they are inadvertently drawn into the hostilities of the ongoing French and Indian War and, eventually, find a new direction to their lives.

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Angel on the Square

Gloria Whelan · 293 pages

In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.

Royal CourtPrinces and PrincessesMiddle GradeTeen Protagonist
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Anne Boleyn and Me: The Diary of Elinor Valjean, London, 1525-1536

Alison Prince · 256 pages

Available for the first time as an ebook from the bestselling My Story series, ANNE BOLEYN AND ME is set in 1525, during Henry VIII's reign. Allegiances are divided. Henry wants to divorce his devoted wife Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeHistorical FictionTeen Protagonist
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Queen Song

Victoria Aveyard · 55 pages

In this prequel novella set in the world of Red Queen, Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary - how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.

Diary FormatRoyal CourtPrinces and PrincessesArranged Marriage
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Anna of Byzantium

Tracy Barrett · 209 pages

In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy

Royal CourtPrinces and PrincessesTeen ProtagonistHistorical Fiction
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Queen's Own Fool

Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris · 390 pages

When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland.

Royal CourtPrinces and PrincessesTeen ProtagonistHistorical Fiction
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Diary FormatRoyal CourtHistorical FictionArranged Marriage
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Innocent Traitor

Alison Weir · 432 pages

I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weir's enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey--"the Nine Days' Queen"--a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center o

Princes and PrincessesRoyal CourtHistorical FictionTeen Protagonist
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Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

Heather Fawcett · 368 pages

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The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien · 400 pages

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a King A new dynasty will reign... 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal King wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den o

Royal CourtPrinces and PrincessesHistorical FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Diary FormatMiddle GradeTeen ProtagonistHistorical Fiction
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