In royal courts bristling with testosterone--swashbuckling generals,
polished courtiers, and virile cardinals--how did repressed regal ladies
find happiness?
- Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one.
Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.
- Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the
Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.
- Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel
Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.
- Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love
affairs, which tragically led to her early death.
In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her
New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the
truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the
queen's boudoir.