false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg 2764071 3 <p>Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, Cleopatra. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad, often gruesome, ends. All too often, even the most devious scheming and ruthless selling-out of their sisters hasn&#8217;t been enough to keep them from the guillotine, the stake, the nunnery, or&#8211;in more recent years&#8211;the paparazzi. Blending meticulous research with colorful narratives and original art, <i>Doomed Queens</i> charts centuries of royal plotting, backstabbing, and intrigue with wit, style, and more than a taste of the macabre.<br> <br>Complete with a cautionary moral for each doomed queen, life lessons, sidebars, quizzes, and more, <i>Doomed Queens</i> is a wry tribute to those ill-fated power brokers who paved the way for womankind, one spectacular regal demise at a time. Filled with juicy tales of illicit love, feigned madness, and unthinkable betrayal, here is a book that will appeal to history buffs and fans of <i>The Tudors</i> as well as the millions of readers of royal biographies and historical fiction. <br> </p> 2789784 28 10 2008 Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di total:173|5:38|4:53|3:51|2:30|1:1| 173 616 352 49 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 3 3 false Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 13:03:12 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 24 07:52:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 5 1 false Mon Dec 07 19:47:33 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 07 19:51:44 -0800 2009
The holidays are approaching, soon the weather will cool down, and there will be nothing you want to do more than lay around in your best gown, your necks and fingers dripping with opulence as you sip exotic hot teas and cocoas. When you find this time for yoursel...more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 5 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:24:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 17:24:35 -0700 2009 Kris Waldherr’s elegant little book is a chronicle of the trials and tribulations of queens across the ages, a quirky, funny, utterly macabre tribute to the dark side of female empowerment. Over the course of fifty irresistibly illustrated and too-brief lives, Doomed Queen...more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 5 0 false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 17:27:39 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 15:35:30 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 5 0 false Fri Jan 09 18:38:07 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 18:41:02 -0800 2009
DOOMED QUEENS recounts the tales of numerous unfortunate queens.

Some of these women died unhappily in exile or imprisoned, while others met more unfortunate ends such as suicide or assassination.

Readers will meet o...more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 5 0 false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 21:53:07 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 21:59:21 -0800 2008 Kris Waldherr (Anne Bolelyn, Jane Grey, Catherine of Aragon, Princess Di), but I was delighted to meet more female rulers who met untimely ends. Boudicca, Berenice IV, Blanche ...more...]]> 2764071 0767928997 9780767928991 173 49 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255792884m/2764071.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2764071.Doomed_Queens_Royal_Women_Who_Met_Bad_Ends_From_Cleopatra_to_Princess_Di 2 0 false Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 05:30:37 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 05:36:27 -0800 2009 1 just stick to well-known and over-abused female figures like Cleopatra and the wives of Henry VIII), I wasn't on board with the whimsicality and coyness of it all.

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