Royal Mistresses and Bastards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Mistresses and Bastards write by Anthony J. Camp. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Royal Mistresses and Bastards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Royal Mistresses
Royal Mistresses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Mistresses write by Charles Carlton. This book was released on 2023-03-31. Royal Mistresses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1990, Royal Mistresses provides an innovative way of looking at the development of British monarchy, and at the same time investigates the relationship between sex and power. Charles Carlton focuses not so much on the amorous activities of the mistresses of British monarchs as on their influences on those monarchs and on society at large. Ranging from the early medieval period to the late 1990s, he shows that a monarch’s illicit sexual life sheds light on his character and reign. It is no coincidence that Henry I, Charles II, and Edward VII, who were successful with their mistresses were also successful in their reigns, while the divorced John and the lovelorn Edward VIII failed Not surprisingly, the affairs of the sovereign’s heart have very often become the affairs of state. This book will be of interest to students of history and literature.
Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses & Bastards
Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses & Bastards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses & Bastards write by Philippa Jones. This book was released on 2017-03-07. Other Tudors: Henry VIII's Mistresses & Bastards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forget everything you thought you knew about Henry the Eighth. While Henry VIII has frequently been portrayed as a womanizer, author Philippa Jones reveals a new side to his character. Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that continued even as he lay dying. This book brings together for the first time the 'other women' of King Henry VIII. When he first came to the throne, Henry VIII's mistresses were dalliances, the playthings of a powerful and handsome man. However, when Anne Boleyn disrupted that pattern, ousting Katherine of Aragon to become Henry's wife, a new status quo was established. Suddenly noble families fought to entangle the king with their sisters and daughters; if wives were to be beheaded or divorced so easily, the mistress of the king was in an enviable position. Yet he loved each of his wives and mistresses, he was a romantic who loved being in love, but none of these loves ever fully satisfied him; all were ultimately replaced. "The Other Tudors" examines the extraordinary untold tales of the women who Henry loved but never married, the mistresses who became queens and of his many children, both acknowledged and unacknowledged. Philippa Jones takes us deep into the web of secrets and deception at the Tudor Court and explores another, often unmentioned, side to the King's character.
The Royal Bastards of Medieval England
The Royal Bastards of Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Royal Bastards of Medieval England write by Chris Given-Wilson. This book was released on 2023-12-01. The Royal Bastards of Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1984, The Royal Bastards of Medieval England establishes a list of royal bastards in medieval England, and discusses their roles in the history of the period. The authors describe how gradually the church began to formulate more definite views on sexual and marital customs, with a consequent decline in the status of illegitimate children. By early sixteenth century, however, royal bastards were once again making their way into the peerage. The book charts the lives of these men and women against the background not only of contemporary political developments, but also of changing ideas about morality and family. This book will be of interest to students of history, religion and literature.
Royal Affairs
Royal Affairs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Royal Affairs write by Leslie Carroll. This book was released on 2008-06-03. Royal Affairs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty history of 1,000 years of bedroom-hopping secrets and scandals of Britain's royals. Insatiable kings, lecherous queens, kissing cousins, and wanton consorts-history has never been so much fun. Royal unions have always been the stuff of scintillating gossip, from the passionate Plantagenets to Henry VIII's alarming head count of wives and mistresses, to the Sapphic crushes of Mary and Anne Stuart right on up through the scandal-blighted coupling of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. Thrown into loveless, arranged marriages for political and economic gain, many royals were driven to indulge their pleasures outside the marital bed, engaging in delicious flirtations, lurid love letters, and rampant sex with voluptuous and willing partners. This nearly pathological lust made for some of the most titillating scandals in Great Britain's history. Hardly harmless, these affairs have disrupted dynastic alliances, endangered lives, and most of all, fed the salacious curiosity of the public for centuries. Royal Affairs will satiate that curiosity by bringing this arousing history alive.
