Royal pains
Subtitle: a rogues' gallery of brats, brutes, and bad seeds
By: Leslie Carroll
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780451232212
Subjects: Royal houses; Kings and rulers; Conduct of life; History
Description: Compendium of the most infamous, capricious, and insatiable bluebloods of Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-390).
Table of contents: title: King John, 1166 or 1167-1216; title: Vlad III of Wallachia ("Vlad the Impaler"), 1431-1476; title: George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-1478, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, 1452-1485; title: Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible"), 1530-1584; title: Lettice Knollys, 1543-1634; title: Erzébet (Elizabeth) Bathory ("The Blood Countess"), 1560-1614; title: Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790; title: Pauline Bonaparte, 1780-1825; title: Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1858-1889; title: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 1864-1892; title: Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002.