Books like Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone

A triptych of three notorious poisoners, each living in different periods: Cesare Borgia, Marie D'Aubray, and Edward Pritchard, examining their lives and murders to understand the root of evil and guilt.

Trace the fifty‑century evolution of the chess queen, from her quiet debut in the early Holy Roman Empire to her powerful rise alongside European female rulers such as Isabel of Castile.

Alison Weir investigates Anne Boleyn’s rise and fall, using Tudor sources to explore her arrest, imprisonment in the Tower, and the politics that led to her death.

Eleanor of Aquitaine—France’s Louis VII’s first wife and England’s Henry II’s second—shaped 12th‑century politics as queen, regent, and mother to Kings Richard and John.

A biographical study of Anne Boleyn that explores her life and the political climate of Tudor England.

The definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth revealing the real woman behind the public figure.

A definitive, richly detailed biography of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, whose life spanned the entire twentieth century and whose influence shaped Britain’s history.

A detailed, scholarly look at the Grey sisters—Mary, Katherine, and Jane—whose brief lives and rivalries shaped Tudor succession and the destiny of England.

A fresh, nonfiction look at Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, revealing their powerful partnership and the complexities of their nineteenth‑century marriage.

A biography profiling the life of Catherine de Medici. Includes source notes and timeline.

A nonfiction portrait of Elizabeth I as England’s powerful monarch, exploring her reign through the lenses of finance, diplomacy, and merchant relations.

A rare, exotic portrait of the matriarchs of a brilliant Indian familyRanging from the final days of the Raj and the British Empire to the present, Lucy Moore vividly re-creates a splendid lost world and describes India's national growing pains through the sumptuous, audacious lives of four ravishing, influential women of the same family—Sunity Devi, friend to Queen Victoria; Chimnabai, fierce nationalist; Indira, her flamboyant daughter; and Ayesha, her equally fashionable daughter—who fought tirelessly and with incomparable grace to turn an ancient tradition of noblesse oblige into a progressive democracy. BACKCOVER: "Scintillating. Moore revels in every detail—from the elegance of the maharanis' attire, to the complexities of Indian family life and politics, to the trauma and heroism of breaking with tradition."—Booklist (starred review)"A fascinating picture of a vanished world."—Sarah Bradford, author of Lucrezia Borgia

Ian Kelly’s biography of Giacomo Casanova explores the famed Venetian adventurer’s life beyond romance, detailing his roles as businessman, diplomat, spy, philosopher, and author.