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Royal Pains

Name: Royal Pains
ISBN: 9780451232212

A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

Leslie Carroll

Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 1, 2011

Reading lane: Royal Lives

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

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A Royal Gallery

A brisk, wry gallery of royal family trouble, built for browsing and comparing notes.

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royal family dysfunction, neatly roped into history
sharp little portraits with room for conversation

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historical snippets across several eras
biographical sketches with a bite

Book Details

Authors: Leslie Carroll
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: March 1, 2011
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Royal Lives · British History
Reading lane: Royal Lives

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Royal Lives
British History
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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: über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible literally reigned in blood. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic the appearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole her man. And Pauline Bonaparte scandalized her brother Napoleon by having a golden goblet fashioned in the shape of her breast. Chock-full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal Pains is a rollicking compendium of the most infamous, capricious, and insatiable bluebloods of Europe.