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Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780131061
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853751394
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens of England written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781853755361
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of England's ongoing royal sexual farce, from "Hal the Horny" and "Edward the Caresser" to the present-day antics of the House of Windsor.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Prion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781853753411
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Sex Lives Kings and Queens written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Prion Books. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435104419
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061120758
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Sex with the Queen LP written by Eleanor Herman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to her bestselling Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir. Impeccably reseached, filled with page-turning romance, passion, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers, including the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Tsarina Alexandra, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria - mother of nine children.
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Prion
ISBN 13 : 9781853758539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Prion. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes history is made on battlefields, sometimes in bedrooms. The ribald, raunchy, and sometimes sordid affairs detailed in this humorous but meticulously researched expose of royal sex scandals give a whole new meaning to Shakespeare's famous line, Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Nigel Cawthorne chronicles an unbroken line of sexual misbehavior--and its political repercussions--across the centuries, from Hal the Horny (Henry VIII) to Edward the Caresser (Edward VII) to the present-day antics of the House of Windsor."
Author : Amy Licence
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445614812
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book In Bed with the Tudors written by Amy Licence and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went on behind closed doors in the Tudor Court? Comprehensive coverage of all the major Tudors: Henry VII, Elizabeth of York, Prince Arthur, Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's various mistresses, Edward VI, Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I.
Author : Carol McGrath
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526769190
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England written by Carol McGrath and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of the Rose Trilogy, “a terrific, informative read for the armchair historian. A fascinating read, packed with juicy details” (Elizabeth Chadwick, New York Times–bestselling author). The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they “did” romance but how did they do sex? In this affectionate, informative, and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in Tudor times, author Carol McGrath peeks beneath the bedsheets of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England to offer a genuine understanding of the romantic and sexual habits of our Tudor ancestors. Find out the truth about “swiving,” “bawds,” “shaking the sheets” and “the deed of darkness.” Discover the infamous indiscretions and scandals, feast day rituals, the Southwark Stews, and even city streets whose names indicated their use for sexual pleasure. Explore Tudor fashion: the codpiece, slashed hose, and doublets, women’s layered dressing with partlets, overgowns, and stomachers laced tightly in place. What was the Church view on morality, witchcraft, and the female body? On which days could married couples indulge in sex and why? How were same sex relationships perceived? How common was adultery? How did they deal with contraception and how did Tudors attempt to cure venereal disease? And how did people bend and ignore all these rules? “[This] fascinating book explores the VERY unsavoury history of sex in Tudor England.” —Daily Mail
Author : Eleanor Herman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061751553
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Sex with Kings written by Eleanor Herman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant characters, outrageous humor, and stirring poignancy, this glittering tale of passion and politics chronicles five hundred years of scintillating women and the kings who loved them. Curiously, the main function of a royal mistress was not to provide the king with sex but with companionship. Forced to marry repulsive foreign princesses, kings sought solace with women of their own choice. And what women they were! From Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV, who kept her position for nineteen years despite her frigidity, to modern-day Camilla Parker-Bowles, who usurped none other than the glamorous Diana, Princess of Wales. The successful royal mistress made herself irreplaceable. She was ready to converse gaily with him when she was tired, make love until all hours when she was ill, and cater to his every whim. Wearing a mask of beaming delight over any and all discomforts, she was never to be exhausted, complaining, or grief-stricken. True, financial rewards for services rendered were of royal proportions -- some royal mistresses earned up to $200 million in titles, pensions, jewels, and palaces. Some kings allowed their mistresses to exercise unlimited political power. But for all its grandeur, a royal court was a scorpion's nest of insatiable greed, unquenchable lust, and vicious ambition. Hundreds of beautiful women vied to unseat the royal mistress. Many would suffer the slings and arrows of negative public opinion, some met with tragic ends and were pensioned off to make room for younger women. But the royal mistress often had the last laugh, as she lived well and richly off the fruits of her "sins." From the dawn of time, power has been a mighty aphrodisiac. With diaries, personal letters, and diplomatic dispatches, Eleanor Herman's trailblazing research reveals the dynamics of sex and power, rivalry and revenge, at the most brilliant courts of Europe. Wickedly witty and endlessly entertaining, Sex with Kings is a chapter of women's history that has remained unwritten -- until now.
Author : Roger Powell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445613816
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Royal Sex written by Roger Powell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current Prince of Wales, our future King, has married his mistress and she will become, barring an accident, our next Queen Consort.
Author : Maureen Waller
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466858028
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sovereign Ladies written by Maureen Waller and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight on the British monarchy---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. In the last millennium there have been only six English female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II. With the exception of Mary I, they are among England's most successful monarchs. Without Mary II and Anne, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 might not have taken place. Elizabeth I and Victoria each gave their name to an age, presiding over long periods when Britain made significant progress in the growth of empire, prestige, and power. All of them have far-reaching legacies. Each faced personal sacrifices and emotional dilemmas in her pursuit of political power. How to overcome the problem of being a female ruler when the sex was considered inferior? Does a queen take a husband and, if so, how does she reconcile the reversal of the natural order, according to which the man should be the master? A queen's first royal duty is to provide an heir to the throne, but at what cost? In this richly compelling narrative of royalty, Maureen Waller delves into the intimate lives of England's queens regnant in delicious detail, assessing their achievements from a female perspective.
Author : Leslie Carroll
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440634777
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Royal Affairs written by Leslie Carroll and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts-history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII's alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain's history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive.
Author : Alison Rattle
Publisher : Union Square + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1435138864
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Mad Kings & Queens written by Alison Rattle and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frank and fascinating history of forty of Europe’s most loony, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs. In Mad Kings & Queens co-authors Alison Rattle and Allison Vale reveal a legion of kings and queens who have abused the pedestal of power in spectacular style. The respectability of the royal position is well and truly tossed aside by the whimsy and wanton depravity of these mad European monarchs, including: The queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit. The bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his subjects. The vampiric ruler who bathed in the blood of young women. The king of excess who beheaded his wives. Mad Kings and Queens explores seven hundred years of royal eccentricity, detailing a catalogue of madness and exploring the finer intricacies of royal breeding that lay at its root.
Author : Michael Farquhar
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140280241
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (82 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Royal Scandals written by Michael Farquhar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck.
Author : Antonia Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England written by Antonia Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207726
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Heart and Stomach of a King written by Carole Levin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not the transcription is accurate, the persistent attribution of this provocative statement to England's most studied and celebrated queen illustrates some of the contradictions and cultural anxieties that dominated the collective consciousness of England during a reign that lasted from 1558 until 1603. In The Heart and Stomach of a King, Carole Levin explores the myriad ways the unmarried, childless Elizabeth represented herself and the ways members of her court, foreign ambassadors, and subjects represented and responded to her as a public figure. In particular, Levin interrogates the gender constructions, role expectations, and beliefs about sexuality that influenced her public persona and the way she was perceived as a female Protestant ruler. With a new introduction that situates the book within the emerging genre of cultural biography, the second edition of The Heart and Stomach of a King offers insight into the continued fascination with Elizabeth I and her reign.
