Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
10 best books like Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics (Eleanor Herman): Uppity Women of Medieval Times, A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors, Sex in History, Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century, Doomed Queens, Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe, The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues, 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 Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs
Uppity Women of Medieval Times
| Author | Vicki León |
| ISBN | 1573240397 |
Vicki Leon, tireless explorer of the past, has gathered a treasure of information from sources written, etched, carved, and painted, to reconstruct the lives of wild women who wouldn't keep their places. From Queen Elizabeth to Joan of Arc, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Damia al-Kahina, this collection...
A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories of History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors
| Author | Michael Farquhar |
| ISBN | 0140280243 |
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...
| Author | Reay Tannahill |
| ISBN | 0812885406 |
SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the myriad varieties of contemporary sexual mores. Reay Tannahill's scholarly, yet accessible study ranges...
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
| Author | Katie Hickman |
| ISBN | 0060935146 |
During the course of the nineteenth century, a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power, independence, and wealth. In doing so they took control of their lives -- and those of other people -- and made the world do their will.
Extremely accomplished,...
| Author | Kris Waldherr |
| ISBN | 0767928997 |
Illicit love, madness, betrayal—it isn't always good to be the queen.
Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison...
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
| Author | Nancy Goldstone |
| ISBN | 0670038431 |
Set against the backdrop of the turbulent thirteenth century, a time of chivalry and crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs comes the story of the four beautiful daughters of the count of Provence whose brilliant marriages made them the queens of France, England, Germany, and Sicily.
From...
The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
| Author | Susan Griffin |
| ISBN | 0767904516 |
They charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men, honing their social skills as well as their sexual ones, and accumulating wealth, fame, and power along the way. Unlike their geisha counterparts, courtesans didn't lived in brothels or bend their wills to suit their suitors. They were the muses...
| 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 | Carolly Erickson |
| ISBN | 0312316437 |
From medieval conqueror to Renaissance autocrat to Victorian Empress to modern melodrama, Royal Panoply is the story of some of the most fascinating people in world history.
With her trademark blend of probing scholarship, lively prose, and psychological insight, Carolly Erickson...
My Lady Scandalous: The Amazing Life and Outrageous Times of Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Royal Courtesan
A wicked turnabout on Jane Austen's oft-quoted adage - "a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" - is My Lady Scandalous, a richly raucous history that traverses the notoriously licentious British Regency era in the company of its most celebrated courtesan.
Following...
| 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...
| 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...
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...
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...
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...
Royalty's Strangest Characters: Extraordinary But True Tales from 2,000 Years of Mad Monarchs and Raving Rulers (Strangest series)
| Author | Geoff Tibballs |
| ISBN | 1861058276 |
A quick, interesting read.
Not for those interested in truly learning history, as no references are given. This book reads almost like a tabloid newspaper. Interesting and fun, but not reliable in the least.
Also frustrating were some of the unnecessary comments the author added...
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...
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
| Author | Elizabeth Prioleau |
| ISBN | 0143034227 |
In this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history?s greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world?from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet...
Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped
| Author | Tony Perrottet |
| ISBN | 0061257281 |
When Tony Perrottet heard that Napoleon's "baguette" had been stolen by his disgruntled doctor a few days after the Emperor's death, he rushed out to New Jersey. Why? Because that's where an eccentric American collector who had purchased Napoleon's member at a Parisian auction now kept the actual...
