Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781780131061 |
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Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781780131061 |
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : Prion Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 9781853753411 |
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781853755361 |
A chronicle of England's ongoing royal sexual farce, from "Hal the Horny" and "Edward the Caresser" to the present-day antics of the House of Windsor.
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781853751394 |
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : Prion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9781853758539 |
Sometimes history is made on battlefields, sometimes in bedrooms. The ribald, raunchy, and sometimes sordid affairs detailed in this humorous but meticulously researched expose of royal sex scandals give a whole new meaning to Shakespeare's famous line, Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Nigel Cawthorne chronicles an unbroken line of sexual misbehavior--and its political repercussions--across the centuries, from Hal the Horny (Henry VIII) to Edward the Caresser (Edward VII) to the present-day antics of the House of Windsor."
Author | : Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2006-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0061120758 |
In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir. Impeccably reseached, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers, including the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Tsarina Alexandra, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria - mother of nine children.
Author | : Eleanor Herman |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0061751553 |
Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant characters, outrageous humor, and stirring poignancy, this glittering tale of passion and politics chronicles five hundred years of scintillating women and the kings who loved them. Curiously, the main function of a royal mistress was not to provide the king with sex but with companionship. Forced to marry repulsive foreign princesses, kings sought solace with women of their own choice. And what women they were! From Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV, who kept her position for nineteen years despite her frigidity, to modern-day Camilla Parker-Bowles, who usurped none other than the glamorous Diana, Princess of Wales. The successful royal mistress made herself irreplaceable. She was ready to converse gaily with him when she was tired, make love until all hours when she was ill, and cater to his every whim. Wearing a mask of beaming delight over any and all discomforts, she was never to be exhausted, complaining, or grief-stricken. True, financial rewards for services rendered were of royal proportions -- some royal mistresses earned up to $200 million in titles, pensions, jewels, and palaces. Some kings allowed their mistresses to exercise unlimited political power. But for all its grandeur, a royal court was a scorpion's nest of insatiable greed, unquenchable lust, and vicious ambition. Hundreds of beautiful women vied to unseat the royal mistress. Many would suffer the slings and arrows of negative public opinion, some met with tragic ends and were pensioned off to make room for younger women. But the royal mistress often had the last laugh, as she lived well and richly off the fruits of her "sins." From the dawn of time, power has been a mighty aphrodisiac. With diaries, personal letters, and diplomatic dispatches, Eleanor Herman's trailblazing research reveals the dynamics of sex and power, rivalry and revenge, at the most brilliant courts of Europe. Wickedly witty and endlessly entertaining, Sex with Kings is a chapter of women's history that has remained unwritten -- until now.
Author | : Amy Licence |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2012-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445614812 |
What went on behind closed doors in the Tudor Court? Comprehensive coverage of all the major Tudors: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Prince Arthur, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's various mistresses, Edward VI, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.
Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
An irreverent expose of the Bishops of Rome from St. Peter to the present day.
Author | : Alison Rattle |
Publisher | : Union Square + ORM |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2011-09-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1435138864 |
A frank and fascinating history of forty of Europe’s most loony, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs. In Mad Kings & Queens co-authors Alison Rattle and Allison Vale reveal a legion of kings and queens who have abused the pedestal of power in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well and truly tossed aside by the whimsy and wanton depravity of these mad European monarchs, including: The queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit. The bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his subjects. The vampiric ruler who bathed in the blood of young women. The king of excess who beheaded his wives. Mad Kings and Queens explores seven hundred years of royal eccentricity, detailing a catalogue of madness and exploring the finer intricacies of royal breeding that lay at its root.