A Noble Undertaking

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A Noble Undertaking

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1lilithcat
Edited: Jun 17, 2007, 9:28 pm

Kings, earls, dukes, are all welcome. But absolutely no real nobility (in other words, books about Queen Victoria or Richard III or Marie Antoinette are right out, that would be too easy)!

The Duchess of Jermyn Street, by Daphne Fielding
The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James
Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840-1916, by Douglas W. Druick
The Queen's New Shoes, by Adwoa Badoe
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos

2Romanus
Jun 17, 2007, 9:48 pm

The Count of Montecristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
The Red Baron by Peter Kilduff
The Countess Kathleen by W. B. Yeats

6bluesalamanders
Jun 18, 2007, 7:37 am

Little Princess
The Princess Bride
The light princess
The Tin Princess
Heir to the Empire

Lady Knight
Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country
Trickster's Queen
The Will Of The Empress

8aviddiva
Jun 18, 2007, 2:43 pm

Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
Lord Demon by Roger Zelazney
Prince of Wolves by Susan Krinard
His Grace of Osmond
and
A Lady of Quality byFrances Hodgson Burnett

9christiguc
Jun 18, 2007, 4:26 pm

10Thwaite
Jun 18, 2007, 10:01 pm

A Treasury of Royal Scandals: the Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars

the Unseen Queen

the Courtship of Princess Leia

the Grey King

the Joiner King

11GeraniumCat
Jun 20, 2007, 6:00 am

The Coming of the King by Nikolai Tolstoy
Queen's Play by Dorothy Dunnett
The Changeling of Monte Lucio by Violet Needham
King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
Lord of Fire by Galen Foley

13Antares1
Jun 26, 2007, 1:05 pm

Bad Prince Charlie by John Moore
The King of the Castle by Victoria Holt
The Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
The Golden Pharaoh by Peter Danielson
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

A Knight in Shining Armor by Jude Deveraux
The Wolf King by Alice Borchardt
Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (yes I know Return of the King is part of the trilogy. I have both the individual books and a combined volume)
The Princess Bride

16LynnB
Jun 26, 2007, 3:24 pm

King Rat
Thine is the Kingdom
Valleys of the Assassins by Dame Freya Stark
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Feminist Activism in the SUPREME Court

18aviddiva
Jul 16, 2007, 1:50 am

Prince Bertram the Bad by Arnold Lobel
Lord of the Dance by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Knight of Shadows by Roger Zelazney
The Light Princess by George MacDonald
His Grace of Osmonde by Francess Hodgson Burnett