Jean Plaidy

One of history's most complex and alluring women, Anne Boleyn was irresistible to kings and commoners alike....

William the Conqueror is destined to succeed his father as the Duke of Normandy but questions about his legitimacy mean he consistently faces challenges from potential usurpers in the Duchy to retain the title....

News of Thomas à Becket’s martyrdom has spread throughout Christendom....

The young Princess Victoria, strictly confined within the boundaries of Kensington Palace, is being moulded for her awesome future as Queen of England....

Scotland has been torn apart by civil war, and the young and passionate Catholic Mary Queen of Scots is in the hands of her enemies....

Princess Mary Rose is the youngest sister of King Henry VIII, and one of the few people whom he adores unconditionally....

Fifteenth-century Spain is rent with intrigue and threatened by civil war. Here, the young Isabella becomes a virtual prisoner at the court of her half-brother, Henry IV....

When William X dies, the duchy of Aquitaine is left to his 15-year-old daughter, Eleanor....

At the age of 32, Richard the Lionheart has finally succeeded Henry II to the English throne....

Widowed at 18 years old, Mary is once again forced to leave her home to return to Scotland. Now a Catholic queen in a Protestant country, Mary must rule with caution and choose her next husband prudently....

The news of Henry III's death reached his son Edward on the long road home from the Holy Land. Now he was England's king and a man fit for his destiny....

At the age of 15, Marie Antoinette, beautiful and charming bride to the impotent Dauphin, is plunged into the intrigue of Versailles....

Albert is dead....

Married to Ferdinand after numerous fears and disappointments, Isabella triumphs over every danger, convinced of her own destiny....

Isabella and Ferdinand rule over a newly united Spain, steadfast in their determination to build the powerful state they have always dreamed of....

On the death of Henry V, a nine-month-old baby is made King of England. Ambitious men surround the baby king, including his two uncles, the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester, who both have plans....

Victoria and Albert have been destined for one another since birth....

Marguerite, eldest daughter of the Count of Provence, married a king of France - and now her sister Eleanor is determined to make just as grand a match....

On the morning of 20 June 1837, an 18-year-old girl is called from her bed to be told that she is Queen of England....

When Henry VI becomes king, it is soon clear that he would be more suited to a quiet life....