num_pages: 192
description: Wealth. Power. Status. The kings and queens throughout history seem to have it all. And yet love it appears was so often out of their reach. Marriages were arranged to form dynasties fall in love with the wrong person was forbidden the pressure to produce an heir was rife; responsibility forced hands and hearts had to follow. Royal Love Stories tells the true love stories of 14 couples providing a fascinating retelling of royal romance over the last seven centuries. Touching absorbing and tragic by turns these stories bring the glamour and contradictions of royalty vividly to life.
language: English
title: Royal Love Stories: The tales behind the real-life romances of Europe's kings and queens
publisher: Ivy Press Limited