Sex with the queen
Subtitle: 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics
By: Eleanor Herman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. Morrow
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780060846732; 9780061171369
Subjects: Social life and customs; Kings and rulers; Liebhaber; Paramours; Königin; Court and courtiers; Queens; Empresses; Sexual behavior; Biography; History
Other titles: 900 years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics; Nine hundred years of vile kings, virile lovers, and passionate politics
Description: Explores the sexual lives of some of the most beloved and infamous female rulers, including Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Life behind palace walls; title: The queen takes a lover; title: Medieval queens, tudor victims; title: The seventeenth century: escape from the gilded cage; title: Eighteenth-century Russia: the unchaste empresses; title: Eighteenth-century Europe: power, passion, and politics; title: The nineteenth century: audacity and outrage; title: The turn of the twentieth century: struggle for equality; title: Diana, Princess of many lovers; title: The politics of adultery.