Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman

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  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Pub. Date: April 2005
  • ISBN-13: 9780060585440
  • Sales Rank: 18,478
  • 320pp
  • Series: P.S.
  • Edition Description: Reprint
 
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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.

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Biography

Eleanor Herman is named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, her grandmother twenty-eight times removed, and is related to most of the royal families of Europe. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings. Formerly the North American associate publisher for NATO's Nations and Partners for Peace magazine, she is an accomplished lecturer and TV and radio broadcast commentator on royal issues. She lives in McLean, Virginia.

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Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revengeby Anonymous

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June 26, 2007: Okay! I have finished this book and loved it. I highly recommend it if you are interrested in the behind the sceens life of the royalites. I'm going to pick up Sex with a Queen as soon as I leave work!!!

Sex with Kings: Five Hundred Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revengeby Anonymous

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June 11, 2007: I have not even finished this book yet and realy love it. It is very informative and entertaining. I read a lot of historical fiction on the monarchs and just about every story includes one mistress or another. This book takes you deeper into the functionality of the mistress and how she got to her status and/or may have lost it.


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