Required Texts and Class Session Readings
Griffiths, Ralph Alan, and John Ashton Cannon. The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Monarchy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (referred to as "G and C" in table below)
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 1987.
Townsend, Sue. The Queen and I. New York: Soho Press Inc., 1994.
Ashley, Michael. British Kings & Queens: The Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Great Britain. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000, 1998.
Clayton, Tim, and Phil Craig. Diana: Story of a Princess. London: Coronet Books, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, 2001.
Coles, Norman A. 1939 - John Ashton's Case for James II as Rightful King of England: Rebellion or Revolution. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.
Douglas-Home, Charles, and Kelly, Saul. 1937. Dignified & Efficient: the British Monarchy in the Twentieth Century. Brinkworth, Wilts: Claridge Press, 2000.
Dunn, Kate, and Graham Holloway. Majesty. United States: Newbridge Communications, 1996, 1993.
Hardie, Frank. The Political Influence of the British Monarchy, 1868 - 1952. London: Batsford, 1970.
Hayden, Ilse. Symbol and Privilege: the Ritual Context of British Royalty. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987.
Hitchens, Peter. The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002, 1999.
Jones, Bill. Political Issues in Britain Today. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Lacey, Andrew. 1960 - The Cult of King Charles the Martyr. Woodbridge, Suffolk, Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2003.
Marshall, Rosalind Kay. Henrietta Maria, the Intrepid Queen. Owings Mills, Md.: Stemmer House Publishers, 1991.
Pearson, John. The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
Pearsall, Ronald. Kings & Queens: A History of British Monarchy. New York: Todtri Productions, 1996.
Rapport, Nigel. British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain. Oxford. New York: Berg, 2002.
Russell, Conrad. The Fall of the British Monarchies, 1637-1642. Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1991.
Taylor, Antony. 'Down with the Crown': British Anti-monarchism and Debates about Royalty Since 1790. London: Reaktion Books, 1999.
Taylor, John A. 1942 - British Monarchy, English Church Establishment, and Civil Liberty. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996.
The Times Kings and Queens of the British Isles. London: Times, 2002.
Tomlinson, Richard. 1958 - Divine Right: The Inglorious Survival of British Royalty. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1995, 1994.
Smith, Robert, and John S. Moore. The Monarchy: Fifteen Hundred Years of British Tradition. London: Published by Smith's Peerage Ltd. for the Institute for Constitutional Research, 1998.
Smith, David L. Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640 1649. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1994.
Van der Kiste, John. Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36. Stroud, Gloucestershire, Dover, N.H.: Alan Sutton, 1993.
George I and George II
Walpole, Horace. Memoirs of King George II, 3 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
Van der Kiste, John. King George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud: Sutton Pub., 1997.
Hatton, Ragnhild Marie. George I, Elector and King. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Dann, Uriel. Hanover and Great Britain, 1740-1760: Diplomacy and Survival. Irvington: Leicester University Press, 1991.
George III
Aspinall, A., ed. The Later Correspondence of George III. 5 vols. London: Cambridge: University Press, 1962.
Adoluphus John, Esq. History of England. 7 vols. London: John Lee, 1841.
Ayling, Stanley. George the Third Collins. London: 1972.
Barnes, Donald Grovesfor. George III and William Pitt. Stanford University Press, Stanford University, 1939.
Boustead, Guy. The Lone Monarch. John Lane. London: The Bodley Head, 1940.
Brooke, John. King George III. London: Constable, 1972.
Butterfield, Herbert. King George III & the Historians. London: Collins, 1957.
Butterfield, H. George III, Lord North, and the People. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1949.
Clarke, John. Life and Times of George III. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.
Davies, J. G. Griffith. George the Third. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936.
Davies, A. Mervyn. George III and the Constitution. Humphry Milford: Oxford University Press, 1921.
Derry, John W. The Regencey Crisis and the Whigs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1963.
Donne, W. Bodham. Correspondence of George III with Lord North. 2 vols. London: John Murray, 1867.
Dobr'ee, Bonamy., ed. The Letters of King George III. London: Lassell and Company Ltd., 1935.
Fitzgerald, Percy. The Family of George III. 2 vols. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1882.
Fortescue, Sir John., ed. Correspondence of King George the Third. London: McMillan & Co. Ltd., 1927.
Hibbert, Christopher, 1924-; Simon Prebble. George III a Personal History. Prince Frederick, Md.: Recorded Books, 2000.
Guttmacher, Manfred S. America's Last King. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
James, Robert Rhodes. 1933 - A Spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI. London: Abacus, 1999, 1998.
Jeffreys, Nathaniel. Conduct of the Prince of Wales. Nathaniel Jeffreys: London.
Jesse, John Heneage. Memoirs of King George the Third. DeLuxe Edition. 5 vols. Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Co., 1901.
Iremonger, Lucille. Love and the Princess. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1958.
George III: His Court and Family. 2 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1824.
Lloyd, Alan. The King Who Lost America. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.
Long, J. C. George III. Boston: Little, Brow and Company, 1960.
McKelvey, James Lee. George III and Lord Bute. Durham: Duke University Press, 1973.
Macalpine, Ida, and Richard Hunter. George III. London: Penguin Press, 1969.
Melville, Lewis. Farmer George. 2 vols. London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1907.
Mumby, Frank Arthur. George III and the American Revolution. London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1924.
Papendiek. Court & Private Life in the Time of Queen Charlotte. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1887.
Pares, Richard. King George III & The Politicians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
Sedgwick, Romney, ed. Letters from George III toward Bute. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1939.
Stuart, Dorothy Margaret. The Daughters of George III. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1939.
Trench, Charles Chenevix. The Royal Malady. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1964.
Vulliamy, C. E. Royal George. London: Jonathan Cape, 1937.
Walpole, Horace. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third. London: Richard Bentley, 1845.
Walkins, John. Memoirs of Queen Charlotte Henry Colburn. London: 1819.
Watson, J. Steven. The Reign of George III. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
King George IV and Caroline
Aspinall, A., ed. Correspondonce of George Prince of Wales. 8 vols. London: Cassel, 1963.
Banvard, John. Life of George IV. New York: Literary and Art Publishing Co., 1880.
Bowman, William Dodgson. The Divorce Case of Queen Caroline. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1930.
Buckingham, Duke of. Buckingham's Court of George IV. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1859.
———. Buckingham's Court of the Regency. 2 vols. London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1856.
Bury, Lady Charlotte Campell. Diary of the Times of George IV. 4 vols. London: Henry Colburn, 1838.
Clerici, Graziano Paolo. A Queen of Indiscretions. Translated by Frederic Chapman. London: John Lane the Bodley Head.
Compiled by Clerke, John Esq. Life of Caroline. London: Mackenzie and Dent.
Cobbett, William. King George IV. 2 vols. London: Mills, Jowett, and Mills, 1830.
Coxe, Howard. The Stranger in the House. London: Chatto & Windus, 1939.
Creston, Dormer. The Regent and his Daughter. London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1932.
Croly, Rev. George. George IV. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831.
Fairburn, John. The Trial of Caroline, Queen of England (Trial of the Queen). 3 vols. London: 1820.
Fitzgerald, Percy. Life of George the Fourth. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1881.
Fulford, Roger. George The Fourth. London: Duckworth, 1935.
———. The Trial of Queen Caroline. London: B. T. Batsfor Ltd., 1967.
Galt, John Esq., ed. Times of George IV. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839.
Sams, William. George IV and Caroline. London: Contemporary Pamphlets., 1821.
Gleave J. Trial of Caroline. 2 vols. Manchester: 1821.
Hibbert, Christopher. George IV: Prince of Wales. 2 vols. London: Longman Group Limited, 1972.
Huish, Robert Esq. Coronation of George IV. London: J. Robinson Company Albion Press, 1821
———. Memoirs of Caroline. 2 vols. London: Thomas Kelly, 1820.
Langdale, Charles. The Mistress of a King. Philadelphia: The Carter Publishing Company, 1892.
Leslie, Anita. Mrs. Fitzherbert. London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., 1960.
Leslie, Shane. George the Fourth. London: Bouverie House, 1926.
———. Mrs. Fitzherbert. London: Burns Oates, 1939.
Liverpool, Lord Russel of. Caroline: The Unhappy Queen. London: Robert Hale, 1967.
Melville, Louis. An Injured Queen: Caroline of Brunswick. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1912.
Morris, Marilyn. 1957 - The British Monarchy and the French Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Morshead, Sir Owen. George IV and Royal Lodge. Brighton: The Regency Society of Brighton & Hove, 1965.
Nightingale, J. Last Days of Caroline. London: J. Robin & Co. Albion Press, 1822.
———. Memoirs of Caroline, Queen of Great Britain. 2 vols. J. London: Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820.
———. Trial of Queen Caroline. 3 vols. J. London: Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1820.
Parry, Sir Edward. Queen Caroline. New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1930.
Perceval, Spencer. An Inquiry into the Conduct of the Prince of Wales. Lenton: John Fairburn, 1820.
Priestly, J. B. The Prince of Pleasure and His Regency 1811-20. New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, 1969.
Queen Caroline. Royal Wanderer. London: H. Rowe, 1823.
Richardson, Joanna. George IV: A Portrait. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1966.
———. The Disastrous Marriage. London: Jonathan Capp, 1960.
Sergeant, Philip W. George. Prince and Regent. London: Hutchinson & Co.
Collected by Smith, Sir David William. Coronation. 2 vols.
T. Kaygill. Trial of Queen Caroline. London: 1820.
Thompson, Grace E. The Prince of Scandal. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931.
Wilkins, W. H. Mrs. Fitzherbert and George Ivu. Longmans. London: Green and Cor, 1905.
Wilks, John, Jr. Memoirs of Queen Caroline. 2 vols. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822.
Victoria and Albert
Clark, Ronald William. Balmoral, Queen Victoria's Highland Home. London: Thames and Hudson, ©1981.
Florance, Arnold. Queen Victoria at Osborne. Newport: Arnold Florance, 1977.
Graham, Fisher and Heather. Bertie and Alix. Anatomy of a Royal Marriage. London: R. Hale, 1954.
Kerr, John. Queen Victoria's Scottish Diaries: Her Day Dreams. Lochar Pub., 1992.
Kuhn, William M. Democratic Royalism: The Transformation of the British Monarchy, 1861 - 1914. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Matson, John A. Dear Osborne: Queen Victoria's Family Life in the Isle of Wight. London: H. Hamilton, ©1978.
Stead, Michael J. Queen Victoria's Scotland. London: Cassell, 1992.
York, Sarah Mountbatten - Windsor. Duchess of. Victoria and Albert: Life at Osborne House. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1991.
Williams, Richard. 1963 - The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Aldershot, England. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate, 1997.
Edward VII
Allfrey, Anthony. Edward VII and his Jewish Court. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1991.
Aronson, Theo. The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistress. London: Murray, 1988.
Bloom, Ursula. Edward and Victoria. London: R. Hale, 1977.
Draper, Alfred. The Prince of Wales. London: New English Library, 1975.
Hibbert, Christopher. Edward VII, A Portrait. London: Allen Lane, 1976.
Judd, Dennis. Edward VII: A Pictoral Biography. London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1975.
Lamont-Brown, Raymond. Edward VII's Last Loves. Stroud: Sutton, 1998.
Magnus, Philip Montefiore, Sir, bart. King Edward the Seventh. New York: Dutton, 1964.
Pearson, John. Edward the Rake. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1975.
Plumptre, George. Edward VII. London: Pavillion, 1995.
Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Roby, Kinley E. The King, the Press and the People: A Study of Edward VII. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1975.
St. Aubyn, Giles. Edward VII: Prince and King. London: Collins, 1979.
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson
Bloch, Michael. The Duke of Windsor's War. London: Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1982.
Birmingham, Stephen. Duchess. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981.
Blackwood, Caroline. The Last of the Duchess. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.
Bloch, Michael, ed. Wallis and Edward: Letters. New York: Summit Books, 1986.
Bloch, Michael. Operation Willi. Toronto: Random House, 1984.
———. The Duchess of Windsor. London: Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1996.
———. The Reign & Abdication of Edward VIII. London: Bantam Press, 1990.
———. The Secret Files of the Duke of Windsor. London: Bantam Press, 1988.
Bocca, Geoffrey. The Woman Who Would Be Queen. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1954.
Bryan, J. III, and Charles J. V. Murphy. The Windsor Story. New York: William Morrow & Company Inc., 1979.
Garrett, Richard. Mrs. Simpson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
Higham, Charles. The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life. New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1988.
King, Grey. The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson. New York: Aurum Press, 1999.
Mackenzie, Compton. The Windsor Tapestry. London: Chatton and Windus, 1952.
Martin, Ralph G. The Woman He Loved. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.
McLeod, Kirsty. Batlle Royal. London: Constable, 1999.
Menkes, Suzy. The Windsor Style. London: Grafton Books, 1987.
Moore, Charles, and Christopher Hawtree, eds. 1936: As Recorded by the Spectator. London: Michael Joseph, 1986.
Mosley, Diana. The Duchess of Windsor. New York: Stein and Day, 1981.
Parker, John. King of Fools. London: Macdonald, 1988.
Pye, Michael. The King over the Water. London: Hutchinson, 1981.
Thomas, Gwynne. King Pawn or Black Night? Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, 1995.
Thornton, Michael. Royal Feud. London: Michael Joseph, 1985.
Ziegler, Phillip. King Edward VIII. London: Collins, 1990.
George VI
James, Robert Rhodes. 1933 - A spirit Undaunted: The Political Role of George VI. London: Abacus, 1999, 1998.
Elizabeth II
Green, Robert. 1969 - Queen Elizabeth II. New York: F. Watts, 1997.
Packard, Jerrold M. The Queen & Her Court: A Guide to the British Monarchy Today. New York: Scribner, 1981.
Next Generation
Andersen, Christopher P. Diana's Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They Loved. Rockland, MA: Wheeler Pub., 2002, 2001.
Dougherty, Terri. Prince William. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2002.
Harmon, Melissa Burdick. Diana: The People's Princess. New York: MetroBooks, 2002.
Haseler, Stephen. 1942 - The End of the House of Windsor: Birth of a British Republic. London, New York: I. B. Tauris, 1993.
Kear, Adrian, and Deborah Lynn Steinberg. Mourning Diana Nation, Culture and the Performance of Grief. London, New York: Routledge, 2002 (Internet Resource).
King, Jon. Beveridge, John. Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence: How MI6 and the CIA were Involved in the Death of Princess Diana. [New York]: Northam: SPI, Roundhouse, 2002.
Thomas, James. Diana's Mourning: A People's History. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002.