Sex with kings : 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge / Eleanor Herman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herman, Eleanor, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Favorites, Royal--Europe--Biography.

Favorites, Royal.

Mistresses--Europe--Biography.

Mistresses.

Scandals--Europe--History.

Scandals.

Courts and courtiers.

History.

Kings and rulers.

Europe--Kings and rulers--Mistresses--Biography.

Europe.

Europe--Court and courtiers--History.

Europe--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Morrow, [2004]

Summary:

What does Camilla see in Charles? Did the Duchess of Windsor REALLY think she was going to get the crown of England? Learn the scandalous truth about the illicit relationships of some of history's most powerful men--and the women who slept with them to get to the top.

Contents:

1 Sex with the King 13

2 Beyond the Bed

The Art of Pleasing A King 33

3 Rivals for a King's Love

The Mistress and the Queen 55

4 Cuckold to the King

The Mistress's Husband 81

5 Unceasing Vigilance

The Price of Success 103

6 Loving Profitably

The Wages of Sin 131

7 Political Power Between the Sheets 155

8 Red Whores of Babylon

Public Opinion and the Mistress 171

9 The Fruits of Sin

Royal Bastards 183

10 Death of the King 195

11 The End of a Brilliant Career and Beyond 211

12 Monarchs, Mistresses, and Marriage 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.

ISBN:

0060585439

OCLC:

54103882