Madame de Pompadour

8 best books like Madame de Pompadour (Nancy Mitford): Marie Antoinette: The Journey, Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain, Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics, Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty, Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire, Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds, Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0307277747

Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers.

Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The...

Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0385509847

The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis’s accomplishments and follies, exploring in riveting detail his intimate relationships with women.

The...

Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain

Author	Michael Farquhar
ISBN	0812979044

Spanning 500 years of British history, a revealing look at the secret lives of some great (and not-so-great) Britons, courtesy of one of the world's most engaging royal historians

Beleaguered by scandal, betrayed by faithless spouses, bedeviled by ambitious children, the kings and queens...

Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

Author	Eleanor Herman
ISBN	0060846739

In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?

Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.

Catherine...

Madame du Barry: The Wages of Beauty

Author

Joan Haslip

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...

Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire

Author	Leslie Carroll
ISBN	0451229010

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...

Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

Author	Leslie Carroll
ISBN	0451232216

The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals.

The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples: uber-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible literally...

Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty

Author	Karl Shaw
ISBN	0767907558

An uproarious, eye-opening history of Europe's notorious royal houses that leaves no throne unturned and will make you glad you live in a democracy.

Do you want to know which queen has the unique distinction of being the only known royal kleptomaniac? Or which empress kept her dirty underwear...