Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Health Unto His Majesty | 1956 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 2 | The Wandering Prince | 1956 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 3 | Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord | 1957 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 4 | The Murder in the Tower | 1964 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 5 | The Three Crowns | 1965 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 6 | The Haunted Sisters / Royal Sisters | 1966 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| 7 | The Queen’s Favourites / Courting Her Highness | 1966 | Eleanor Burford / Hibbert | Buy |
| The Stuart Saga by Eleanor Burford Hibbert, writing as Jean Plaidy, covers the Stuart monarchs from the early seventeenth century through the beginning of the eighteenth. The first three books published, A Health Unto His Majesty, The Wandering Prince, and Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord, follow Charles II and his court during the Restoration period. Plaidy captures Charles as a witty, politically shrewd king who balanced competing factions while pursuing a famously active personal life. |
The Murder in the Tower, published later, is set earlier in the Stuart period during the reign of James I and the scandal surrounding the Overbury affair. The Three Crowns, The Haunted Sisters, and The Queen’s Favourites cover the later Stuarts, including the Glorious Revolution that brought William and Mary to power and the reign of Queen Anne. These later novels explore the religious conflicts and political upheavals that eventually ended the Stuart line and brought the Hanoverian dynasty to the throne, as told in the Georgian Saga.
The Stuart Saga fits between the Tudor Saga, which covers the period before the Stuarts, and the Georgian Saga, which follows the Hanoverian kings who succeeded them.