Notorious royal marriages : a juicy journey through nine centuries of dynasty, destiny, and desire / Leslie Carroll.
Publication details: New York : New American Library, c2010.Description: xvi, 507 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780451229014 (pbk.)
- 940.09/9 22
- D107 .C29 2010
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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900 - 999 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 940.099 CARR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001240226 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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 de Medici—all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England’s Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge...
Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe—from the Angevins to Charles and Di—and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all.
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