| Edition |
1st Harper Perennial ed. |
| Description |
xii, 322, 18 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York: William Morrow, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Life behind palace walls -- The queen takes a lover -- Medieval queens, Tudor victims -- The seventeenth century : escape from the gilded age -- Eighteenth-century Russia : the unchaste empresses -- Eighteenth-century Europe : power, passion, and politics -- The nineteenth century : audacity and outrage -- The turn of the twentieth century : struggle for equality -- Diana, princess of many lovers -- The politics of adultery. |
| Subject |
Queens -- Europe -- Biography.
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Queens -- Sexual behavior -- Europe.
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Favorites, Royal -- Europe.
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Scandals -- Europe -- History.
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Europe -- Court and courtiers.
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Europe -- Kings and rulers.
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| ISBN |
9780060846749 (pbk.) : $13.99 |
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0060846747 (pbk.) |
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0060846739 : $25.95 |
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