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Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy - Leslie Carroll
Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy
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A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain?s royals.Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts?history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip,... show more
A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain?s royals.Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts?history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII?s alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain?s history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780451223982 (0451223985)
ASIN: 0451223985
Publisher: NAL Trade
Pages no: 447
Edition language: English
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it
3.0 Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy
Carroll covers much of the same ground that she covered in Notorious Royal Marriages, and since this book predates that one, I guess she covered it here first. She also starts way too many sentences with the word AND. Really.Additionally, I found it strange that Ives biograpny of Anne Bolyen wasn'...
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it
This is trashy history at its finest. I am pleasantly surprised to find Carroll's history is good--she admits when facts are unclear, and reminds readers of possible bias from sources. She's aware of the newer theories about each figure as well.That said. This is still trashy trashy trashy, the "...
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