Sex With Kings by Eleanor Herman

500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

A lively popular-history survey that chronicles several centuries of royal sex lives, affairs, and scandals, showing how lovers, mistresses, and sexual politics shaped courts, succession and statecraft; through vivid anecdotes and biographical sketches of monarchs, consorts and courtiers, it traces how intimate relationships influenced alliances, fueled rivalries, affected dynasties and altered the course of political history.

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