Research Catalog

Title

Royal affairs : a lusty romp through the extramarital adventures that rocked the British monarchy / Leslie Carroll.

Author

Carroll, Leslie

Publication

New York : New American Library, c2008.

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Details

Description

xi, 447 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Spanning nearly one thousand years of British history, an entertaining and informative study chronicles the scandalous and adulterous behavior of Britain's royal family and its historical repercussions, from the reign of Henry II to the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

Subjects

• Biographies
• Mistresses > Great Britain > Biography
• Favorites, Royal > Great Britain > Biography
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Sexual behavior
• Great Britain > Kings and rulers > Paramours > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The ANGEVINS : Henry II and Rosamund de Clifford; and Alys (or Alais), Countess of the Vexin -- The PLANTAGENETS : Edward II and Piers Gaveston; and Hugh Despenser the Younger ; Isabella of France (Queen to Edward II) and Roger Mortimer ; John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and Katherine Swynford -- Lancaster and York : Edward IV and Jane Shore -- The TUDORS : Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon ; Henry VIII and Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount; and Mary Boleyn; and Anne Boleyn; and Jane Seymour; and Kathryn Howard ; Kathryn Howard and Francis Dereham; and Thomas Culpeper ; Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester; and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex -- The STUARTS : Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell ; James I of England and Ireland (also James VI of Scotland) and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham ; Charles II and Lucy Walter; and Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland; and Frances Teresa Stuart; and Nell Gwyn; and Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth; and Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin ; James II of England/James VII of Scotland and Anne Hyde ; William III and Mary II and Frances Apsley; and Elizabeth Villiers; and Arnold Joost van Keppel ; Anne and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; and Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham.
• The HANOVERS : George I and Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington and Countess of Leinster and (simultaneously) Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster ; George II and Henrietta Howard; and Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden ; George IV and Mary Robinson; and Maria Fitzherbert ; Carline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales : The "Delicate Investigation" and The Bill of Pains and Penalties ; Frederick, Duke of York and Mary Anne Clarke ; William IV and Dorothy Jordan ; Victoria and John Brown -- SAXE-COBURG-GOTHA : Edward VII and Lillie Langtry; and Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick; and Alice Keppel -- The WINDSORS : Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson ; Charles, Prince of Wales (introduction); Diana, Pricness of Wales and James Hewitt ; Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles.

ISBN

9780451223982 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007051769

OCLC

• 184982538
• SCSB-12147279

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library