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Author : Anthony J. Camp
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Favorites, Royal
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 822/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Royal Mistresses and Bastards by : Anthony J. Camp
Download or read book Royal Mistresses and Bastards written by Anthony J. Camp. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Carlton
Release : 2023-03-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 423/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Royal Mistresses by : Charles Carlton
Download or read book Royal Mistresses written by Charles Carlton. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, and at the same time investigates the relationship between sex and power. Charles Carlton focuses not so much on the amorous activities of the mistresses of British monarchs as on their influences on those monarchs and on society at large. Ranging from the early medieval period to the late 1990s, he shows that a monarch’s illicit sexual life sheds light on his character and reign. It is no coincidence that Henry I, Charles II, and Edward VII, who were successful with their mistresses were also successful in their reigns, while the divorced John and the lovelorn Edward VIII failed Not surprisingly, the affairs of the sovereign’s heart have very often become the affairs of state. This book will be of interest to students of history and literature.
Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Release : 2023-12-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 445/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Royal Bastards of Medieval England by : Chris Given-Wilson
Download or read book The Royal Bastards of Medieval England written by Chris Given-Wilson. This book was released on 2023-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period. The authors describe how gradually the church began to formulate more definite views on sexual and marital customs, with a consequent decline in the status of illegitimate children. By early sixteenth century, however, royal bastards were once again making their way into the peerage. The book charts the lives of these men and women against the background not only of contemporary political developments, but also of changing ideas about morality and family. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and literature.
Author : Leslie Carroll
Release : 2008-06-03
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 777/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Royal Affairs by : Leslie Carroll
Download or read book Royal Affairs written by Leslie Carroll. This book was released on 2008-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
Release : 2008
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 684/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Royal Bastards by : Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
Download or read book Royal Bastards written by Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex, power, mystery and blood - this fresh approach to the British monarchy recounts gripping, untold stories about their unofficial offspring.
