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NOTORIOUS ROYAL MARRIAGES
by Leslie Carroll
Pub. Date: January 2010
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Format: Paperback, 528pp
ISBN-13: 9780451229014
ISBN: 0451229010
Edition Description: Original
Description (from the publisher):
A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs.
Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love- and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia's Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici-all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England's Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge...
Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe-from the Angevins to Charles and Di-and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all.
About the author (from the publisher):
Leslie Carroll has written contemporary fiction under her own name, and historical fiction under the pen name Amanda Elyot.
Click here to visit the website of author Leslie Carroll.
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4 comments:
Thanks so much for posting about our event and giveaways. We had so much fun doing it. We have Robin Maxwell and O,Juliet up next this month!
I love historical fiction, especially royal historical fiction. I'm excited to check out the round table and these bloggers. Thanks for posting this. And the book sounds fascinating. I remember a similar book from a few years ago. I can't remember the title, but it was something like "Sex with Kings" and it was about various kings mistresses. Now I need to go look it up. Thanks for the review and the info. on the round table.
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome find! I am off to visit the site and check things out!
Thanks so much for sharing this awesome find! I am off to visit the site and check things out!
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