Greg King, 60, passed away of natural causes at his home in southern California on April 25, 2025. Greg was born on November 23, 1964, in Everett, Washington to Roger King and Helena Haga King. He spent his early years in nearby Stanwood, moving to north Everett as a young boy. He attended local schools, graduating from King's Garden High School in 1984, followed by Edmonds Community College and the University of Washington.

Greg was pre-deceased by his parents and his older sister Kathy.

From childhood, Greg had a deep interest in royal history. While in junior high, he wrote the first draft of what would become his debut book. A supportive neighbor gave Greg her own typewriter so he could convert his handwritten draft to print; a dozen years and several drafts later, his groundbreaking biography The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, was published before he was twenty-five.

Greg devoted the rest of his life to the study and writing of history. Fourteen of his twenty-four published books were on a multitude of Russian topics, from framing The Court of the Last Tsar to critiquing The Romanovs on Film, while other books focused on the Habsburgs, British royalty, the Gilded Age and King Ludwig II of Bavaria. A talented social historian and biographer, he also wrote books on the sinking of the famous ships Lusitania and Andrea Doria, framed as a microcosm of their societies and eras, and two centered around infamous murder cases – namely, a biography of Sharon Tate, written with the help of her mother, Doris Tate, and a study of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murders.

A generous collaborator, Greg wrote more than half his books with co-authors: Janet Ashton, Coryne Hall, Penny Wilson, and Sue Woolmans. He assisted numerous other writers and historians with research or composition, and through his work as an editor on several magazines or book projects, notably for Joseph T. Fuhrmann and Debra Tate. Greg also appeared on numerous tv shows and podcasts as an expert in his field and acted as consultant on others. He co-founded and edited the Russia-focused Atlantis Magazine, as well as writing many of the articles, and contributed articles to the electronic British Library Journal, the European Royal History Journal, Royalty Digest Quarterly and Majesty magazine, among others. The focus of many of his articles was architecture, a major passion.

For his survivors - an aunt and an uncle, several beloved cousins, the Knauss family, Angela Manning, his co-authors and agent Dorie Simmonds, four dogs, and a multitude of good friends across the globe - Greg's passing is a tremendous loss. The history world is bereft of all his future work, the next piece of which he was planning the evening before he died.

A collection of Greg's articles can be found at his memorial Substack, maintained by his friends: https://atlantismagazine.substack.com/

Greg never did enjoy a "fuss," and he wanted no services; in lieu of this, please have some extra fun-time with your dog, or consider a donation in his name to your local no-kill animal shelter; he'd love that.