Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours
10 best books like Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours (Princess Michael of Kent): Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of France, The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance, Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, The King's Favorite, Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty, A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings, In Triumph's Wake: Royal Mothers, Tragic Daughters, and the Price They Paid for Glory, Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II
| Author | Christine Pevitt |
| ISBN | 0802140351 |
This biography of the legendary mistress of King Louis XV offers dramatic insight into the life of one of the most enchanting, powerful, and feared women to grace the world's stage. Groomed from an early age to assume the role of a rich man's mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson underwent several transformations...
The Deadly Sisterhood: Eight Princesses of the Italian Renaissance
| Author | Leonie Frieda |
| ISBN | 0297852086 |
I was so excited to get my hands on this book. It seemed to be right up my alley: a study of eight aristocratic women and how their actions impacted on the political schemes and upheavals of Renaissance Italy. And Freida's chosen as her subjects some truly fascinating women: Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the politically...
Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
| Author | Charles Beauclerk |
| ISBN | 0802142745 |
Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England’s great folk heroines, a woman who rose from an impoverished, abusive childhood to become King Charles II’s most cherished mistress, and the star of one of the great love stories...
| Author | Susan Holloway Scott |
Nell Gwyn has never been a lady, nor does she pretend to be. Blessed with impudent wit and saucy beauty, she swiftly rises from the poverty of Covent Garden to become a sensation in the theater. Still in her teens, she catches the eye of King Charles II, and trades the stage for Whitehall Palace and the role...
Born the illegitimate daughter of a monk and a seamstress, Madame du Barry rose from poverty to become one of the most powerful and wealthy women of France. A courtesan, she became Louis XV's official mistress and was fêted as one of France's most beautiful women. On Louis XV's death she became vulnerable...
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings
The acclaimed author of Aristocrats returns with a major new book that reveals the story of a regal family plagued by scandal and notoriety and trapped by duty, desire, and the protocols of royalty.
History remembers King George III of England as the mad monarch who lost America. But as a young man,...
| Author | Julia P. Gelardi |
| ISBN | 0312371055 |
The powerful and moving story of three royal mothers whose quest for power led to the downfall of their daughters.
Queen Isabella of Castile, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, and Queen Victoria of England were respected and admired rulers whose legacies continue to be felt today. Their...
| Author | Nigel Cawthorne |
| ISBN | 1853755362 |
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The headlines of...
| Author | Leslie Carroll |
| ISBN | 0451223985 |
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...
Painted Ladies: Women At The Court Of Charles II
| Author | Catherine MacLeod |
| ISBN | 1855143216 |
The court of Charles II was a focus for exuberance, glamor and revelry after the constraints of the Civil War and Interregnum. Portraits, both literary and visual, were an important part of the cultural production of the court, reflecting the spirit of the age as much as the characteristics of the individuals...
Here, for the first time, is an all-embracing account of the loves of that celebrated royal womaniser, Edward VII, as Prince of Wales and King.
It is also a study of the three women with whom the King was most deeply in love — his `official' mistresses, Lillie Langtry, Daisy Warwick and Alice...
| Author | Lawrence James |
| ISBN | 0312615450 |
Aristocracy means "rule by the best." For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes, and its sense of public duty. It evolved from a medieval...
| Author | Anne Somerset |
| ISBN | 0753819872 |
Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune...
Isabella and the Strange Death of Edward II
| Author | Paul Doherty |
| ISBN | 0786711930 |
For good reason, the queen in chess inherits its fearsome power on the game board from the reputedly murderous maneuvers of the fourteenth-century Queen Isabella of England, as historian and biographer Paul Doherty shows in his engaging account of a savage chapter in medieval English history. What...
Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England
| Author | Maureen Waller |
| ISBN | 0312338015 |
"In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. "
In the last millennium there...
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
| Author | Katie Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0393060799 |
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy ”a history worthy of Shakespeare.
It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage...
She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 0750947357 |
This history deals with the bad girls of England's medieval royal dynasties, the queens who earned themselves a notorious reputation. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biography—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France, and Anne Boleyn, for example—while...
Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz
| Author | John Van der Kiste |
| ISBN | 0750930527 |
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste...
Kings & Queens of England
| Author | Brenda Ralph Lewis |
| ISBN | 0762104066 |
Arranged chronologically by dynasty, Kings and Queens of England details the most notorious events throughout British royal history. Hundreds of fascinating tales of murder, mayhem, and scandal are brought to life with contemporary accounts, archival paintings, photographs and vivid illustrations--together...
All For Love: The Scandalous Life and Times of Royal Mistress Mary Robinson
| Author | Amanda Elyot |
| ISBN | 0451222970 |
A bold and bawdy historical novel-from the acclaimed author of Too Great a Lady.
Mary Robinson's talent, beauty, and drive led her from debtors' prison to the glamour and scandal of the London stage, where a star was born-and sold as society's darling, envied by women, and desired by men. From...
The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011
| Author | Alison Weir |
| ISBN | 0091943779 |
This book takes an informative and entertaining look at royal weddings through English history.
The excitement surrounding the marriage of Prince William to Kate Middleton has prompted four of Britain's top historical biographers to look closely at Royal Weddings from 1066 to the present...
Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant
While I can't argue that Henrietta Howard is a fascinating woman, I was a bit disappointed that a book about a Kings Mistress was so entirely lacking in sex and scandal.
Basically the King would, like clockwork, spend a few hours in her room on set days. And he did this for rather a long time until...
The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria
| Author | Greg King |
| ISBN | 1559723629 |
Chi era veramente Ludwig di Wittelsbach, re Luigi II di Baviera? Greg King ripercorre la vita di questo enigmatico personaggio: dall'infanzia all'ascesa al trono a soli diciannove anni, alla deposizione dopo la creazione dell'impero tedesco, ai rapporti con Bismarck, alla passione per ogni forma...
