by Susan Flantzer

I was very sad to hear that author Greg King passed away during the night of April 24/25, 2025, aged 61. He was the author of more than a dozen books, mostly about Russian royalty. I admired his work and read many of his books. His work will be missed among those of us who read royal history.

Greg King’s Works

• The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, 1994
• The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria, 1996
• The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire, 1996
• The Duchess of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson, 1999
• Sharon Tate and the Manson murders, 2000
• The Fate of the Romanovs, co-authored with Penny Wilson, 2003
• The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II, 2006
• Gilded Prism: The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes & the Last Years of the Romanov Dynasty, with Penny Wilson, 2006
• Twilight of Splendor: The Court of Queen Victoria During Her Diamond Jubilee Year, 2007
• A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs Astor in Gilded Age New York, 2008
• The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World’s Greatest Royal Mystery, with Penny Wilson, 2010
• The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World, with Sue Woolmans, 2013
• Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age, with Penny Wilson, 2015
• Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs, 2017
• The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria: The Sinking of the World’s Most Glamorous Ship, with Penny Wilson, 2020