Penguin Books Australia

THE QUEEN'S story is our history: she was not born to be Queen but, a media star since the age of three, she has been the most famous woman in the world for all of our lives

A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs.

More than ever before, nightclubs and ski slopes are teeming with a new generation of hip young royals—many of them single and looking for love. Packed with full-color photographs and page after page of gorgeous profiles, Bright Young Royals is the glamorous, must-have guide to the smartest, best-looking crowd the world's monarchies have ever produced. Find out where they work, where they play...

'Triumphantly successful'
Sunday Times

'Vivid, thorough and enjoyable'
Independent

'If the 'Greatness' of a king can be measured by the extent to which his qualities corresponded to the needs of a nation at a given moment in history, then George VI was a great king, and perhaps a very great king'
Massigli, French Ambassador, 1952

Don't know your Albert from your Ethelred? Which Henry had six wives, and which was crowned at eight years old? Kings & Queens of England and Scotland is the essential guide that will help you sort your Tudors from your Stuarts, and discover how each monarch helped to shape the country we live in today. Easy to read biographies of each sovereign highlight key dates and achievements and family trees...

The real woman behind our throne, her life and loves

As we celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is the first all-round, up-close picture of one of the most fascinating, enigmatic and admired women in the world.