Inglorious Royal Marriages
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Inglorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll
It's no secret that the marriages of monarchs are often made in hell. Here are some of the most spectacular mismatches in five hundred years of royal history....In a world where many kings, queens, and princes lacked nothing but true love, marital mismatches could bring out the baddest, boldest behavior in the bluest of bloodlines. Margaret Tudor, her niece Mary I, and Catherine of Braganza were desperately in love with chronically unfaithful husbands, but at least they weren't murdered by them, as were two of the Medici princesses were. King Charles II's beautiful, high-spirited sister "Minette" wed Louis XIV's younger brother, who wore more makeup and perfume than she did. Forced to wed her boring, jug-eared cousin Ferdinand, Marie of Roumania-a granddaughter of Queen Victoria-proved herself one of the heroines of World War I by using her prodigious personal charm to regain massive amounts of land during the peace talks at Versailles.
Brimming with outrageous real-life stories of royal marriages gone wrong, this is an entertaining, unforgettable book of dubious matches doomed from the start.
Leslie Carroll is the author of various works of historical nonfiction, women's literature, and historical fiction (using the pen names Juliet Grey and Amanda Elyot). Royal Romances, Royal Pains, Royal Affairs, Notorious Royal Marriages, and Inglorious Royal Marriages are some of her nonfiction titles. She's also an award-winning audio book narrator and a classically trained professional actor who's played a variety of virgins, vixens, and villainesses. Leslie has been interviewed by a number of outlets, including MSNBC.com, USA Today, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and NPR, and she was a featured royalty historian on CBS nightly news in London during the coverage of Prince William and Catherine Middleton's royal wedding. She has also appeared on the BBC series The Secret Lives of... as an expert on the love lives of Queen Victoria, Marie Antoinette, Catherine the Great, and Napoleon.
for the History Channel of Canada Leslie and her husband, Scott, live in New York City and Denver, Colorado, respectively.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780451416766 |
| ISBN 10 | 0451416767 |
| Titel | Inglorious Royal Marriages |
| Autor | Leslie Carroll |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | New American Library |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2014-09-02 |
| Seitenanzahl | 400 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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