Royal Pains
A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · March 1, 2011
The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals.
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- Who it’s for
- A brisk, wry gallery of royal family trouble, built for browsing and comparing notes.
- Genres
- Royal Lives, Tudor & Elizabethan Britain, French History
- Published
- Penguin Publishing Group, March 1, 2011
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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.
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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.
A Royal Gallery
A brisk, wry gallery of royal family trouble, built for browsing and comparing notes.
Come here for
- royal family dysfunction, neatly roped into history
- sharp little portraits with room for conversation
Expect
- historical snippets across several eras
- biographical sketches with a bite
Where it sits
| Royal Lives | 83% |
|---|---|
| French History | 64% |
| Tudor & Elizabethan Britain | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Royal Lives
- British History
- Social History
- Authors
- Leslie Carroll
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- March 1, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Royal Lives