The International Herald Tribune, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and Apollo. Currently he writes for The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement and Cornucopia. Mansel has lectured all over the world – including the United States, France, Germany, Italy and Turkey – and has made a number of appearances on radio and television, including in the two-part Channel 4 documentary Harem and in Versailles (BBC2, 2012). He has been interviewed on French, Belgian, Turkish and Lebanese television. Books Louis XVIII (London, Blond and Briggs, 1981) Pillars of Monarchy: An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards, 1400–1984 (New York, Quartet Books, 1984) The Eagle in Splendour: Napoleon I and His Court (London, George Philip, 1987 - new edition, IBTauris, 2015) The Court of France: 1789–1830 (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988) Sultans in Splendour: The Last Years of the Ottoman World (New York, Vendome, 1989) Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453–1924 (New York, St. Martin's, 1995) The French Émigrés in Europe and the Struggle against Revolution: 1789–1814 (New York, St. Martin's Press, 1999) (Editor, with Kirsty Carpenter) Paris Between Empires, 1814–1852 (London, John Murray, 2001) Prince of Europe: the Life of Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1735–1814 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003) Dressed to Rule: Royal and Court Costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II (New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005) Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (London, John Murray, 2010) Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II (London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (Editor, with Torsten Riotte) Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City (London, I.B.Tauris, 2016) King of the World: the Life of Louis XIV (Penguin, 2019) The Levantine Heritage Foundation Philip Mansel is a trustee of the Levantine Heritage Foundation. Kimmeridge Project Philip Mansel is actively involved in the Kimmeridge Project, whose objective is to provide a secure and permanent home for the scientifically valuable Etches Fossil Collection, in a world class facility in Kimmeridge. The resulting Jurassic Marine Life Centre will open up access to this important educational resource and provide the village of Kimmeridge with a centre for the local community. In 1995 Mansel started a campaign to save Clavell Tower, a ruined folly of 1831 which threatened to fall over the cliff above Kimmeridge Bay. This led, in 2007–8, to the Tower's deconstruction, relocation, reconstruction, restoration and modernisation by The Landmark Trust.