Antonia Fraser

Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions....

The six wives of Henry VIII have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters.

More than 400 years after her death, Mary Queen of Scots remains one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history....

A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage....

This audiobook centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women....

The passing of the Great Reform Bill of 1832....

Antonia Fraser deals with each woman in turn with sympathy - the sympathy they deserve for having had the unenviable fate of being Henry's wife....

With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life....

This magnificent story of 1,000 years of English history is told through the lives and deeds of Kings and Queens...

In the 18th century, the Catholics of England lacked many basic freedoms under the law: they could not serve in political office, buy or inherit land, or be married by the rites of their own religion....

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life....

When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright....

Poet, pamphleteer and artist's muse, Caroline Norton dazzled 19th-century society with her vivacity and intelligence. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends and admirers to her salon in Westminster, which included the young Disraeli....

The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by a reduction in Penal Laws against Catholics harking back to the 16th century. Fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'....

The superb historian and biographer Antonia Fraser, author of Marie Antoinette, casts new light on the splendor and the scandals of the reign of Louis XIV in this dramatic, illuminating look at the women in his life....