Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Alison Weir is a British writer of history books for the general public, mostly in the form of biographies about British kings and queens, and of historical fiction. Before becoming an author, Weir worked as a teacher of children with special needs. She received her formal training in history at teacher training college. She currently lives in Surrey, England, with her two children.
Series
Books
Henry VIII
The Heart and the Crown
2023
In the Shadow of Queens
Tales from the Tudor Court
2021
Mary Boleyn
The Mistress of Kings
2011
The True and Terrible Tale of Perotine Massey
2024
Anne Boleyn
A King's Obsession
2017
The Curse of the Hungerfords
2019
Arthur
Prince of the Roses
2016
Innocent Traitor
2006
Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Life
1999
The Passionate Tudor
A Novel of Queen Mary I
2024
Six Tudor Queens
Writing a New Story
2016
The Lady Elizabeth
2008
The Blackened Heart
2017
Elizabeth, the Queen / The Lady Elizabeth
2011
The Ring and the Crown
A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011
2011
The Golden Prince
2023
The Chateau of Briis
A Lesson in Love
2018
Six Tudor Queens
Divorced, Beheaded, Died
2019
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
2003
The Last White Rose
2022
The Tower is Full of Ghosts Today
2017
The Lady in the Tower
The Fall of Anne Boleyn
2009
The Grandmother's Tale
2018
Alison Weir Assortment
2025
The Lost Tudor Princess
The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
2016
Britain's Royal Families
The Complete Genealogy
1989
In This New Sepulchre
2021
The Wicked Wife
2021
Mistress of the Monarchy
The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
2009
Captive Queen
A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
2010
Anna of Kleve
The Princess in the Portrait
2019
The Princes in the Tower
1992
The Unhappiest Lady in Christendom
2018
Traitors of the Tower
2010
The Children of Henry VIII
1996
The Lancasters and Yorks
2025
Queen Isabella
Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
2005
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1992
Queens of the Age of Chivalry
2022
The Princess of Scotland
2020
A Dangerous Inheritance
A Novel of Tudor Rivals and the Secret of the Tower
2012
The King's Painter
2019
Katherine of Aragón
2016
Jane Seymour
The Haunted Queen
2018
The Wars of the Roses
1995
Katharine Parr
2021
A Tudor Christmas
2018
Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Days' Queen
2025
The Queen's Child
2021
The Life of Elizabeth I
1998
Queens of the Crusades
2021
Henry VIII
The King and His Court
2001
Katheryn Howard
The Tainted Queen
2020
The Marriage Game
2014
The Cardinal
2025
Henry VIII
The Heart and the Crown: 'this novel makes Henry VIII’s story feel like it has never been told before'
2024
Queens of the Conquest
2017
Elizabeth of York
A Tudor Queen and Her World
2013
Firstborn
2022
