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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
Michael Farquhar

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A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

the shocking true stories of history's wickedest, weirdest, most wanton kings, queens, tsars, popes, and emperors

Penguin (Non-Classics) (May 01, 2001)
9780140280241
| Paperback
352 pages | 5.3 x 8 inch | English
Dewey 920.02
LC Classification D107 .F32 2001
LC Control No. 2001024575

Subject

  • Heads Of State - Conduct Of Life
  • Kings And Rulers - History. - Conduct Of Life
  • Scandals

Plot

From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.