In royal courts bristling with testosterone?swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals?how did repressed regal ladies find happiness? Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir.
| Autor: | Herman Eleanor |
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| ISBN: | 9780060846749 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Harper Collins (US) |
| Veröffentlicht: | 05.07.2007 |
| Untertitel: | 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics |
| Schlagworte: | 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100 Germany HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century HISTORY: Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union HISTORY: Europe / Spain HISTORY: Social History HISTORY: WORLD HISTORY: Women Russia Spain WOMEN'S STUDIES: WOMEN'S HISTORY |
Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and several other works of popular history. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Channel, The Madness of Henry VIII for the National Geographic Channel, and is now filming her second season of America: Fact vs. Fiction for The American Heroes Channel.