RECOMMENDED READING

BIOGRAPHIES OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Bradford, Sarah. Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times. London: Viking, 2012.

Brandreth, Gyles. Elizabeth and Philip: Portrait of a Royal Marriage. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004.

Hardman, Robert. Our Queen. London: Arrow Books, 2012.

Lacey, Robert. Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor. London: Hutchinson, 1977.

Marr, Andrew. The Diamond Queen. London: Macmillan, 2011.

Pimlott, Ben. The Queen: Elizabeth and the Monarchy. London: HarperPress, 2012.

Smith, Sally Bedell. Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch. New York, Random House, 2012.

ROYAL BIOGRAPHIES AND STUDIES

Bloch, Michael. The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor. London: Transworld, 1988.

Bogdanor, Vernon. The Monarchy and the Constitution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.

Boothroyd, Basil. Prince Philip: An Informal Biography. New York: McCall, 1971.

Bradford, Sarah. George VI. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.

Buxton, Aubrey. The King in His Country. London: Longmans, Green, 1955.

Eade, Philip. Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life. London: HarperPress, 2011.

Heald, Tim. The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.

Menkes, Suzy. Windsor Style. London: Grafton, 1987.

Pope-Hennessy, James. Queen Mary, 1867–1953. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1959.

Rose, Kenneth. King George V. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

Rose, Kenneth. Kings, Queens & Courtiers. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.

Shawcross, William. The Queen Mother: The Official Biography. New York: Vintage Books, 2010.

Vickers, Hugo. Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. London: Hutchinson, 2005.

Warwick, Christopher. Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts. London: André Deutsch, 2002.

Ziegler, Philip. King Edward VIII. London: Collins, 1990.

Ziegler, Philip. Mountbatten. London: Collins, 1985.

MEMOIRS AND DIARIES

Brown, Anthony Montague. Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill’s Last Private Secretary. Great Britain, Podkin Press, 1995.

Hartnell, Norman. Silver and Gold. London: Evans Brothers, 1955.

Moir, Phyllis. I Was Winston Churchill’s Private Secretary. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1941.

Nel, Elizabeth. Winston Churchill by His Private Secretary. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2007.

Nicolson, Nigel. The Harold Nicolson Diaries, 1907–1964. London: Phoenix, 2005.

Rhodes James, Robert. “Chips”: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon. London: Phoenix, 1996.

Shawcross, William. Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

Soames, Mary. Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. London: Doubleday, 1998.

Soames, Mary. A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child. New York: Random House, 2012.

Townsend, Peter. Time and Chance. London: Collins, 1978.

BIOGRAPHIES AND HISTORIES

Bew, John. Citizen Clem. London: Quercus, 2016.

Clarke, Peter. Mr. Churchill’s Profession. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: A Life. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.

Hennessy, Peter. Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties. London: Penguin, 2007.

Hennessy, Peter. The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945. London: Penguin, 2001.

Jenkins, Roy. Churchill: A Biography. New York: Plume, 2002.

Lough, David. No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. New York City: Picador, 2015.

Manchester, William and Paul Reid. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965. New York: Bantam Trade Paperbacks, 2013.

Purnell, Sonia. Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.

Roberts, Andrew. Eminent Churchillians. London: Phoenix, 1995.

Soames, Mary. Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.

Strong, Roy. Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Vickers, Hugo. Cecil Beaton: The Authorized Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985.