We have used many of the books below from our own personal libraries as resources in our articles about Queen Victoria and her family.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

General

• Ask Sir James – Michaela Reid (about Sir James Reid, Queen Victoria’s personal physician)
• Childhood At Court, 1819-1914 – John Van der Kiste
• Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria – Theo Aronson
• Life at the Court of Queen Victoria – Barry St. John-Nevill
• Purple Secret – Genes, Madness and the Royal Houses of Europe – John C.G. Rohl, Martin Warren, and David Hunt
• Queen Victoria’s Descendants – Marlene A. Eilers
• Queen Victoria’s Family: A Century of Photographs – Charlotte Zeepvat
• Queen Victoria’s Gene: Hemophilia and the Royal Family – D.M. Potts
• Queen Victoria’s Jubilees: 1887 and 1897 – Caroline Chapman
• Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household – Kate Hubbard

Biographies of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

• Becoming Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Rise of Britain’s Greatest Monarch – Kate Williams
• Dear Papa, Beloved Mama: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as Parents – Christina Croft
• Farewell to Splendor: The Passing of Queen Victoria – Jerrold Packard
• Her Little Majesty – Carolly Erickson
• Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy – A. N. Wilson
• Queen Victoria – Walter L. Arnstein
• Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions – Matthew Dennison
• Queen Victoria: A Personal History – Christopher Hibbert
• Queen Victoria: Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life (US edition)/Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow (UK edition) – Lucy Worsley
• Queen Victoria’s Highland Journals – Queen Victoria, edited by David Duff
• Queen Victoria’s Secrets – Adrienne Munich
• Shooting Victoria – Paul Thomas Murphy
• Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year – Greg King
• Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert -Stanley Weintraub
• Victoria: A Life – A. N. Wilson
• Victoria R.I. – Elizabeth Longford
• Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire – Julia Baird
• We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners and Rivals – Gillian Gill

Quee Victoria’s Children

General

• Queen Victoria’s Children – John Van der Kiste
• Victoria’s Daughters – Jerrold M. Packard

Victoria, Princess Royal, German Empress

• A Mere Passing Shadow: The Tragedy of Frederick III, German Emperor – John Van der Kiste
• An Uncommon Woman – Hannah Pakula
• Beloved and Darling Child – edited by Agatha Ramm (letters of Queen Victoria and her daughter Victoria)
• Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria’s Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor – John Van der Kiste

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

• Edward and Alexandra: Their Private and Public Lives – Richard Alexander Hough
• Edward VII: The Last Victorian King – Christopher Hibbert
• King Edward VII – Philip Magnus
• Queen Alexandra – Georgina Battiscombe
• The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, The Playboy Prince – Jane Ridley
• The Marlborough Set – Anita Leslie

Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse of Hesse and by Rhine

• Alice, The Enigma – A Biography of Queen Victoria’s Daughter – Christina Croft
• Alice: Biographical Sketch and Letters – Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
• Princess Alice: Queen Victoria’s Forgotten Daughter – Gerard Noel

Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

• Dearest Affie: Alfred, Queen Victoria’s Second Son – John Van Der Kiste

Princess Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein

• Helena: A  Princess Reclaimed – S. Chomet
• Helena: Queen Victoria’s Third Daughter – John Van der Kiste and Bee Jordaan

Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll

• Darling Loosy: Letters to Princess Louise (1856-1939) – Elizabeth Longford
• Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Unconventional Daughter – Jehanne Wake
• The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter – Lucinda Hawksley

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught

• Witness of a Century: Life and Times of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942) – Noble Frankland

Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany

• Queen Victoria’s Youngest Son: The Untold Story of Prince Leopold – Charlotte Zeepvat

Princess Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg

• The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter – Matthew Dennison
• The Shy Princess – David Duff

Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren

General

• Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria – Julia P. Gelardi
• Edward VII’s Children – John Van der Kiste
• King, Kaiser, Tsar – Catrine Clay
• Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters: 1860-1918 – Christina Croft
• Queen Victoria’s Grandsons: 1859-1918 – Christina Croft
• The Four Graces: Queen Victoria’s Hessian Granddaughters – Ilana D. Miller
• The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II – John Van der Kiste
• The Royal Mob – Theresa Sherman

Wilhelm II, German Emperor, King of Prussia

• Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany’s Last Emperor – John Van der Kiste
• The Last German Empress: A Life of Empress Augusta Victoria, Consort of Emperor Wilhelm II –
• Wilhelm II, Volume 1: Prince and Emperor 1859-1900 – Lamar Cecil
• Wilhelm II, Volume 2: Emperor and Exile, 1900-1941 – Lamar Cecil

Princess Charlotte of Prussia, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen

• Charlotte and Feodora: A Troubled Mother-Daughter Relationship in Imperial Prussia – John Van der Kiste

Prince Albert Victor of Wales (Eddy)

• Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had – Andrew Cook

King George V of the United Kingdom

• King George V – Kenneth Rose
• King George V: His Life and Reign – Harold Nicolson

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Marchioness of Milford Haven

• Advice to My Grand-daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse – compiled by Richard Hough

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

• Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia – Hugo Mager
• The Life and Death of Ella, Grand Duchess of Russia: A Romanov Tragedy – Christopher Warwick

Princess Alix of Hesse of Hesse and by Rhine, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia

• A Lifelong Passion – Sergei Mironenko and Andrei Maylunas
• Nicholas and Alexandra – Robert Massie
• The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia – Greg King

Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna of Russia

• A Fatal Passion – Michael John Sullivan
• Princess Victoria Melita: Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia 1876-1936 – John Van der Kiste

Princess Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania

• The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Romania – Hannah Pakula
• The Story of My Life – Queen Marie of Romania

Princess Marie Louise (of Schleswig-Holstein)

• My Memories of Six Reigns – Princess Marie Louise

Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone

• For My Grandchildren: Some Reminiscences of Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone  – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
• Princess Alice: Countess of Athlone – Theo Aronson