Sex With the Queen - 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

Informationen zum Autor Eleanor Herman is the New York Times bestselling author of Sex with Kings, Sex with the Queen, and several other works of popular history. She has hosted Lost Worlds for The History Channel, The Madness of Henry VIII for the National Geographic Channel, and is now filming her second season of America: Fact vs. Fiction for The American Heroes Channel. Klappentext In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings ,Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, fi lled with pageturning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers. She was the queen, envied and revered, but also miserable, forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen—a royal ogre who was sadistic, repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotent—and in some cases all of the above. How did queens fi nd happiness? In courts bristling with testosterone, many royal women had love aff airs. When a queen took a lover, anything could happen—from disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs named the queen's lover prime minister. At European courts, it was the politics, not the sex, that caused a royal woman's tragedy—or her ultimate triumph. Zusammenfassung In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings ,Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, fi lled with pageturning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers. She was the queen, envied and revered, but also miserable, forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen—a royal ogre who was sadistic, repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotent—and in some cases all of the above. How did queens fi nd happiness? In courts bristling with testosterone, many royal women had love aff airs. When a queen took a lover, anything could happen—from disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs named the queen's lover prime minister. At European courts, it was the politics, not the sex, that caused a royal woman's tragedy—or her ultimate triumph. ...

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Herman
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2006
• EAN: 9780061120756
• ISBN: 978-0-06-112075-6
• No. of pages: 487
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: France, Russia, European History, Spain, Germany, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Reference works, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: Social History, HISTORY: Women, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, WOMEN'S STUDIES: WOMEN'S HISTORY, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY: Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, The arts: general topics, HISTORY: Europe / Spain, Women's Studies / Women's History