In July 1956 Marilyn Monroe arrived in London to make The Sleeping Prince (later released as The Pri..

Frank McCourt?s sequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir Angela?s Ashes focussing on the ?great c..

A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I.An abused child yet confid..

The SAS is staffed by the toughest and most resourceful soldiers in the world - only the cream of th..

At the outbreak of WW2 the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. Edward VIII had abdicated the..

Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968 when he was 20. Over the next 50 years he met her many t..

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements buying fan..

Small in stature but immense in reputation and talent there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met..

Czechoslovakia October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the threatened nation's most prestig..

Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17 and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron C..

Cairo 1942. Colonel Clarke thought of himself as developing a new kind of weapon. Its components? Ru..

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent double agent tr..

When he arrives to take up his first posting as a GP in Collintrae a small fishing village on the We..

In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1944 a thin and unusually elegant housewife eme..

To many Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique portrayed as an ageing stiff widow. ..