{"product_id":"love-letters-of-kings-and-queens-1","title":"Love Letters of Kings and Queens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet, they are also correspondence between the rulers of nations. From Henry VIII's lovelorn notes to Anne Boleyn and George IV's impassioned notes to his secret wife, to Queen Victoria's tender letters to Prince Albert and Edward VIII's extraordinary correspondence with Wallis Simpson - these letters depict romantic love from its budding passion to the comfort and understanding of a long union (and occasionally beyond to resentment and recrimination), all set against the background of great affairs of state, wars and the strictures of royal duty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere is a chance to glimpse behind the pomp and ceremony, the carefully curated images of royal splendour and decorum, to see the passions, hopes, jealousies and loneliness of kings and queens throughout history. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication date 12 February 2026. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57265869848960,"sku":"9781529413557","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/6285\/4275\/files\/9781529413557.jpg?v=1768830614","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/products\/love-letters-of-kings-and-queens-1","provider":"The National Archives Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}