Scandals of the royal palaces : an intimate memoir of royals behaving badly / Tom Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Tom, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandals--Great Britain--History.

Scandals.

Palaces--Great Britain--History.

Palaces.

Kings and rulers.

Great Britain--Kings and rulers.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 293 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Biteback Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the political and sexual scandals that take place in Britain's royal palaces. Dozens of royal scandals have been covered up or suppressed to some degree by an establishment that is famous for its determination to keep royal secrets, well, secret. This book is the first in-depth look at the outrageous behaviour not just of the royals themselves, but also of palace officials, courtiers, household servants and hangers on. Covering existing royal palaces in some depth as well taking a look at scandals linked to long-vanished royal residences, such as Whitehall, Nonsuch and Kings Langley, Scandals of the Royal Palaces also includes new information on well-known and not-so-well known scandals, including those that have only recently been revealed in detail through the release of previously secret official papers. As this glorious romp of a book reveals, scandal and the royal family have always been bedfellows and the key to the sometimes extraordinary scandals that the royal family have become involved in are the palaces in which they live.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One The King and His Husband

ch. Two Traces Remain: Palaces Rise and Fall

ch. Three Sweet Child and Wife: The Forbidden Loves of James

ch. Four Charles II and the Trick Worth Forty Wenches

ch. Five William Ills Menage a Trois

ch. Six Dark Deeds at Night: Queen Anne's Ladies

ch. Seven Monsters and Madmen: The Hanoverians

ch. Eight Bad Behaviour: The Sons of George III

ch. Nine John Brown's Legs: Victoria's Second Husband

ch. Ten Hell-Bent on Pleasure: Edward VII's `Loose Box'

ch. Eleven Brothel Creepers: Prince Eddy and the Boys

ch. Twelve `Not a Woman at All'

ch. Thirteen Rent Boys at Clarence House

ch. Fourteen Love and Loss: Princess Margaret, Diana and Meghan Markle

ch. Fifteen Car-Crash Andy: The Prince and the Paedophile.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Ebook version :

ISBN:

1785906526

9781785906527

OCLC:

1246284583

Publisher Number:

99991413457