Sex with kings
Subtitle: five hundred years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge
By: Eleanor Herman.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Favorites, Royal -- Europe -- Biography.; Mistresses -- Europe -- Biography.; Scandals -- Europe -- History.; Europe -- Kings and rulers -- Mistresses -- Biography.; Europe -- Court and courtiers -- History.; Europe -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Five hundred years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge
Notes: Originally published: New York : Morrow, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sex with the king; title: Beyond the bed-the art of pleasing a king; title: Rivals for a king's love-the mistress and the queen; title: Cuckold to the king-the mistress's husband; title: Unceasing vigilance-the price of success; title: Loving profitably-the wages of sin; title: Political power between the sheets; title: Red whores of Babylon-public opinion and the mistress; title: The fruits of sin-royal bastards; title: Death of the king; title: The end of a brilliant career and beyond; title: Monarchs, mistresses, and marriage.