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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge » (Reprint)

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Authors: Eleanor Herman
ISBN-13: 9780060585440, ISBN-10: 0060585447
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Eleanor Herman

The author of Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen, New York Times bestselling historian Eleanor Herman has hosted episodes for the National Geographic Channel and the History Channel's Lost Worlds. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, she is married and lives in McLean, Virginia.

Book Synopsis

Continuing her accounts of history from women's perspective, Herman foregrounds the royal mistresses of Europe since the Middle Ages, who are usually relegated to shadows even when significantly influencing policy. One of her insights is that mistresses provided kings not so much with sex as with companionship. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

… Sex With Kings is entertaining: a beach book, and a lot more fun than Danielle Steel or Dan Brown.

	Acknowledgments	xi
	Introduction	1
1	Sex with the King	13
2	Beyond the Bed--The Art of Pleasing A King	33
3	Rivals for a King's Love--The Mistress and the Queen	55
4	Cuckold to the King--The Mistress's Husband	81
5	Unceasing Vigilance--The Price of Success	103
6	Loving Profitably--The Wages of Sin	131
7	Political Power Between the Sheets	155
8	Red Whores of Babylon--Public Opinion and the Mistress	171
9	The Fruits of Sin--Royal Bastards	183
10	Death of the King	195
11	The End of a Brilliant Career and Beyond	211
12	Monarchs, Mistresses, and Marriage	237
	Notes	257
	Bibliography	271
	Index	275