Description: 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 perverted-like so many of the crowned heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity-or just very bad luck. Michael Farquhar is a writer and editor at the Washington Post specializing in history. He is the author of the bestsellers A Treasury of Great American Scandals and A Treasury of Royal Scandals. He appeared on the History Channel's Russia, Land of the Tsars and will be featured on a forthcoming program about the French Revolution.
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EAN: 9780140280241
UPC: 9780140280241
ISBN: 9780140280241
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Book Title: Treasury of Royal Scandals : The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest Weirdest MostWanton Kings Queens
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Topic: Topic / Politics, Royalty, Social History, Presidents & Heads of State
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2001
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History
Item Weight: 10.2 Oz
Author: Michael Farquhar
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: A Michael Farquhar Treasury Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
