The author of the New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings returns with a scintillating look at royal sex and power from the queen’s perspective
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 researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, politics, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers and the impact their affairs had on their lives and their countries. Herman offers us a peak into the affairs of such rulers as the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Empress Alexandra of Russia, the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria-mother of nine children-and the insecure and utterly tragic Princess Diana.
As Herman shows, when a queen took a lover, anything could happen-from disgrace and death to victory. At European courts, it was the politics-not the sex that caused a royal woman’s tragedy-or her ultimate triumph.
The author of the New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings returns with a scintillating look at royal sex and power from the queen’s perspective
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 researched, filled with page-turning romance, passion, politics, and scandal, Sex with the Queen explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers and the impact their affairs had on their lives and their countries. Herman offers us a peak into the affairs of such rulers as the notorious Catherine the Great, the passionately foolish Marie Antoinette, the destructively willful Empress Alexandra of Russia, the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria-mother of nine children-and the insecure and utterly tragic Princess Diana.
As Herman shows, when a queen took a lover, anything could happen-from disgrace and death to victory. At European courts, it was the politics-not the sex that caused a royal woman’s tragedy-or her ultimate triumph.
Eleanor Herman
9780060846749
Paperback
History / Social History
