Royalty in Fiction

Ever since the publication of "The Other Boleyn Girl" in 2002, historical novels about the royals and their associates have enjoyed a great resurgence in popularity that shows no signs of slowing. Author Philippa Gregory, having finished with the Tudors, has just published a novel in her new series "The Cousins War", i.e., the fifteenth century War of the Roses. "The Red Queen" is the story of Margaret Beaufort of the House of Lancaster who is determined to put her son on the English throne and conspires to see that he is eventually established as Henry VII, thus founding the Tudor dynasty.

Alison Weir, another well-regarded novelist of royalty, has recently published "The Captive Queen," the fictionalized life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor, the wife of Henry II and also the subject of Weir's bestselling biography, was imprisoned by her husband for plotting against him along with his sons.

For other historical novels of royal lives, check out the current mini-display, Royalty in Fiction.