The Secret Diary of a Princess

Anastasia and Her Sisters

Carolyn Meyer · 310 pages

A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them. This novel in diary form shares the story of the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, describing the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769

Kathryn Lasky · 225 pages

Catherine: The Great Journey, Russia, 1743

Kristiana Gregory · 169 pages

Fourteen-year-old Prussian princess Sophia finds herself entangled in her mother's efforts to arrange a marriage between Sophia and Charles-Peter, a young German duke and nephew of the Russian empress Elizabeth. As Sophia's mother moves to make the match, she and Sophia must travel from their humble home in Zerbst, Prussia, to Russia--the kingdom of Elizabeth. There, Sophia is renamed Catherine an

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.

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

Carolly Erickson · 336 pages

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.

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.

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.

Princess in Waiting

Meg Cabot · 259 pages

Never before has the world seen such a princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking meters is met with resistance. But the politics of bureaucracy are nothing next to Mia's real troubles. Between canceled dates with her long—sought—af

The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales

Heather Fawcett · 368 pages

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

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.

Deception

Grace Cavendish, Patricia Finney · 200 pages

Nzingha: Warrior Queen of Matamba, Angola, Africa, 1595

Patricia C. McKissack · 136 pages

Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe

Sandra Gulland · 370 pages

Companion to The many lives and secret sorrows of Josephine B.

Michal

Jill Eileen Smith

As the daughter of King Saul, Michal lives a life of privilege-but one that is haunted by her father's unpredictable moods and by competition from her beautiful older sister. When Michal falls for young David, the harpist who plays to calm her father, she has no idea what romance, adventures, and heartache await her.As listeners enter the colorful and unpredictable worlds of King Saul and King Dav

Young Bess

Margaret Irwin · 393 pages

"Margaret Irwin's great trilogy of novels about the life of 'Good Queen Bess', Elizabeth I, begins with her childhood. At three, her mother, Anne Boleyn, is executed for adultery, incest and witchcraft, Elizabeth declared a bastard and banished from her father's Court. She is restored by Henry VIII's last wife, Katherine Parr, who, after the King's death, marries Tom Seymour. But he is playing for

In the Shadow of the Crown

Jean Plaidy · 405 pages

As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father's ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary's life forever. The father who had

The Wild Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Defiant Daughter

Mary Hart Perry · 417 pages

The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert produced nine children--five of them princesses, all trained for the role of marriage to future monarchs. However, the fourth princess, Louise--later the duchess of Argyll--became known by the court as "the wild one."

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Robin Maxwell · 288 pages

Before the Crown

Flora Harding · 400 pages

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

The Tale of Murasaki

Liza Dalby · 437 pages

Out of the life and work of Lady Murasaki, the author of, the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji, Liza Dalby has woven an exquisite and irresistible fiction that with rich, nuanced authenticity and lyrical drama, brings an elaborate past world to vivid life.The sensitive and modest daughter of a mid-ranking court poet, Murasaki Shikibu staves off loneliness with her active imagination, telling