The DICTIONARY OF ROYAL BIOGRAPHERS brings together short entries on more than 500 authors who have written and published in English on the lives of British and European Kings, Queens, Emperors, Empresses and their families from the Norman conquest and the eleventh century to the present day. Writers from the early nineteenth century onwards are included, as are over thirty monarchs, ex-monarchs, princes and princesses who published their own memoirs. A list of relevant titles with date of first publication follows each entry.