false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174445426m/401495.jpg 401495 6 From Nero's nagging mother (whom he found especially annoying after taking her as his lover) to Catherine's stable of studs (not of the equine variety), here is a wickedly delightful look at the most scandalous royal doings you never learned about in history class. Gleeful, naughty, sometimes perverted--like so many of the crowned heads themselves--<i>A Treasury of Royal Scandals</i> presents the best (the worst?) of royal misbehavior through the ages. From ancient Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the darkest corners of the Bastille, the great royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, deadly rivalry, pathological lust, and meeting death with the utmost indignity--or just very bad luck. (Text taken from the back of the book.) 390902 1 5 2001 A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors total:509|5:137|4:192|3:144|2:32|1:4| 509 1953 818 91 3 1 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 05:36:24 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 05:37:01 -0800 2009 Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert (who you may also know as Jean Plaidy, Victoria Holt and Phillipa Carr) and ...more...]]> 3 2 false false Mon Nov 19 11:14:52 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 11:15:27 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Thu Jan 17 13:04:36 -0800 2008 Fri May 23 07:10:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 18:51:35 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 14:57:54 -0700 2009
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