Select Bibliography
The works consulted during the 22 years it has taken me to research this book are too numerous to mention. What follows is a list of the most important sources. Books marked *are especially recommended for researching royal genealogy. Every effort has been made to trace a publisher for each book listed; unfortunately, this was not possible in every case.
Adam of Usk: Chronicon(ed. E. M. Thompson, 1876).
Adamson, D. & Dewar, P. B.: The House of Nell Gwynn(Kimber, 1974).
Akrigg, G. P. V.: Jacobean Pageant, or the Court of King James I(Hamish Hamilton, 1962).
Albert, M. A.: The Divorce(Harrap, 1965).
Alderman, C. L.: Blood Red the Roses: The Wars of the Roses(Bailey and Swinfen, 1973).
Alexander, Marc: The Outrageous Queens(1977).
H.R.H. Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone: For My Grandchildren(Evans, 1966).
Altschul, M.: A Baronial Family in Mediaeval England: The Clares, 1217–1314(Johns Hopkins, 1965).
Ancient Charters, Royal and Private, prior to A.D. 1200(ed. J. H. Round, Pipe Roll Society, 1888).
Andrews, A: The Royal Whore(Hutchinson, 1971).
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle(ed. G. N. Garmonsway, Dent, 1954).
Anominalle Chronicle(ed. V. H. Galbraith, 1967).
Appleby, J. T.: England without Richard(Bell, 1965).
Appleby, J. T.: Henry II, the Vanquished King(Bell, 1962).
Appleby, J. T.: The Troubled Reign of King Stephen(Bell, 1969).
Archaeologia(102 vols., Society of Antiquaries of London, 1773–1969).
Argy, J. & Riches, W.: Britain’s Royal Brides(Sphere Books, 1977).
Armitage-Smith, S.: John of Gaunt(Constable, 1904).
Ashdown, D. M.: Ladies in Waiting(Arthur Barker, 1976).
Ashdown, D. M.: Princess of Wales(John Murray, 1979).
Ashdown, D. M.: Queen Victoria’s Mother(Robert Hale, 1974).
Ashley, M.: Charles II, the Man and the Statesman(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971).
Ashley, M.: The Glorious Revolution of 1688(Hodder and Stoughton, 1966).
Ashley, M.: James II(Dent, 1977).
Ashley, M.: King John(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972).
Ashley, M.: The Stuarts in Love(Hodder and Stoughton, 1963).
Ashley, M.: William I(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973).
Ashton, R.: James I by his Contemporaries(Hutchinson, 1969).
Asser, Bishop: Life of King Alfred(ed. W. M. Stevenson, Oxford University Press, 1904).
Ayling, S.: George the Third(Collins, 1972).
Bacon, Francis: The Life of Henry VII(1622; ed. J. R. Lumby, Cambridge University Press, 1902).
Bagley, J. J.: Henry VIII(Batsford, 1962).
Bagley, J. J.: Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England(Herbert Jenkins, 1948).
Baker, Geoffrey le: Chronicon(ed. E. M. Thompson, Oxford University Press, 1889).
Baker, Richard: A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans’ Government unto the Death of King James(1643).
Baker, T.: The Normans(Cassell, 1966).
Barber, R.: Henry Plantagenet: A Biography of Henry II of England(Boydell Press, 1972).
Barlow, F.: Edward the Confessor(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1970). *
Barlow, F.: The Feudal Kingdom of England(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1961).
Barlow, F.: William I and the Norman Conquest(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965).
Battiscombe, G.: Queen Alexandra(Constable, 1969).
Baxter, S. B.: William III(Longman, 1966).
Bayley, J.: History and Antiquities of the Tower of London(Jennings and Chaplin, 1830).
Beamish, T.: Battle Royal(Muller, 1965).
Beaverbrook, Lord: The Abdication of King Edward VIII(Hamish Hamilton, 1966).
Beckingsale, B. W.: Elizabeth I(Batsford, 1963).
Bennett, D.: King without a Crown(Heinemann, 1977).
Bennett, D.: Vicky(Collins and Harvill, 1971).
Berry, P.: By Royal Appointment(Femina, 1970).
Bevan, B.: Charles the Second’s French Mistress(Robert Hale, 1972).
Bevan, B.: I was James the Second’s Queen(Robert Hale, 1963).
Bevan, B.: King James III of England(Robert Hale, 1962).
Bevan, B.: Nell Gwyn(Robert Hale, 1969).
Bingham, C.: Edward II(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973).
Bingham, C.: James V, King of Scots(Collins, 1971).
Bingham, C.: The Kings and Queens of Scotland(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976). *
Bingham, C.: The Stewart Kingdom of Scotland(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974).
Black, J. B.: The Reign of Elizabeth(Oxford University Press, 1959).
Blackman, John: Collectarium Mansuetudinum et Bonorium Morum Regis Henrici VI(ed. M. R. James, 1919).
Bloom, U.: The House of Kent(Robert Hale, 1969).
Bloom, Ursula: Princesses in Love(Robert Hale, 1973).
Bone, Q.: Henrietta Maria, Queen of the Cavaliers(Owen, 1973).
The Book of Burials of True Noble Persons(MS. in the Royal College of Arms).
Borrow, G. W. S.: Robert the Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland(Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965).
Bowle, J.: Charles the First(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975).
Bowle, J.: Henry VIII(Allen and Unwin, 1964).
Brooke, C.: The Saxon and Norman Kings(Batsford, 1963).
Brooke, J.: King George III(Constable, 1972).
Brooke-Little, J. P.: Boutell’s Heraldry(Frederick Warne, 1973).
Bruce, M. L: Anne Boleyn(Collins, 1972).
Bruce, M. L: The Making of Henry VIII(Collins, 1977).
The Brut, or The Chronicles of England(ed. F. Brie, Early English Texts Society, 1906, 1908).
Bryant, A.: The Age of Chivalry(Collins, 1963).
Brysson-Morrison, N.: The Private Life of Henry VIII(Robert Hale, 1964).
Burke’s Guide to the Royal Family(Burke’s Peerage, 1973). *
Burke’s Peerage(various editions). *
Butler, I.: Rule of Three(Hodder and Stoughton, 1967).
Byrne, M. St. Clair: The Letters of King Henry VIII(Cassell, 1936).
Calendar of Charter Rolls preserved in the Public Record Office(6 vols., H.M.S.O., 1903).
Calendar of Documents preserved in France, illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1, 918–1206(ed. J. H. Round, 1899).
Calendar of entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland: Papal Letters(ed. W. H. Bliss, 1893).
Calendar of Letters, Despatches and State Papers relating to Negotiations between England and Spain(ed. O. A. Bergenroth, 13 vols., H.M.S.O., 1862–1954).
Calendar of Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII(ed. J. S. Brewer, J. Gairdner, and R. H. Brodie, 21 vols., H.M.S.O., 1862–1932).