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I nominate Mrs. Brown A Screenplay - available, short and fun:http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-list...
Sorry to be boring, but I haven't read The Other Boleyn Girl get so I nominate that please.
Oh wait, was Katherine a mistress? As in Katherine by Anya Seton ? If so please can I change my vote to that. If not, I'll stick with the fisrt.
We recently read Katherine as a group. If you read it, you can go back to those threads and comment - people will still look at them. :) I think it was a history read.
Btw, I don't think The Other Boleyn Girl is boring at all. I think that would be the most heated/fun/crazy discussion this group has ever had!
Cool! I'll stick with PG then!
ok 1st of all not a word against gregory!!im gonna stick up for her because im a huge fan.and im going to nominate The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King by Princess Michael of Kent.she's a royal and im intrested to see how royals see their peers!!
were there royal men compared to royal mistress?i mean a lover a queen took.i just know about robert dudely!were there any other famous "man-whores"! ooppsss!im sorry but that is the most appropriate word i can think of!!lol!
oh i forgot to paste the link
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72...
by the way people have given some awful reviews so i really am getting second thoughts!!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72...
by the way people have given some awful reviews so i really am getting second thoughts!!
Suffiyan, I almost nominated that book! I debated between it and the one I did nominate.Yeah, when I created the topic I wasn't sure what to call the male equivalent of a mistress. That's why it's Royal Mistress - The Other Woman or Man. I think Catherine the Great had a lot of boyfriends (geez, I read a big book about her a year ago and can't remember anything from it - I have a terrible memory).
Rasputin and Tsaritsa Alexandra were supposed to be quite an item according to some, or as frigid a relationship as the siberian wastes, according to others sources.ETA http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1io...
Catherine the Great indeed had many lovers, yes.
i mean the lovers who were important!by the way catherine the great dosen't sound so great after all!she was a slut i think!who was she?i just read that she was a russian queen!what else about her?
Catherine II "the Great" was one of the most important rulers in Russian history.Who was she? The daughter of a minor royal family from a small German state (Anhalt-Zerbst, I think) who married the heir to the Russian throne. It was an unhappy marriage (her husband was completely nuts), and after her husband inherited the Russian throne she led a successful rebellion against him. She was Empress for about forty years. She modernized and liberalized Russia in many ways.
Oh poor cow! Couldn't she find anything bigger?
Boof wrote: "Oh poor cow! Couldn't she find anything bigger?"The Winter Palace is much much bigger.
Well, thank goodness!
It kind of makes the *cough* summer cottages at Newport RI look like cottages doesn't it?
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European Royalty
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Courtesan (other topics)Mrs. Brown: A screenplay (other topics)
Madame de Pompadour (other topics)
***ANY TIME PERIOD, ANY EUROPEAN COUNTRY, FICTION OR NON-FICTION***
Okay everyone, it's that time of the month - time to nominate! Anyone who would like to nominate ONE book may do so in this thread.
The theme this month is ROYAL MISTRESSES - THE OTHER WOMAN (OR MAN!) (any time period, any European country, fiction or non-fiction). This is pretty self-explanatory - Jane Shore, Bessie Blount, etc. etc. - there are a ton of them!
Please try to check amazon or some other site to make sure the book is easily available - the last thing we want is to nominate some great book that no one can get! If you nominate more than ONE book, only the first book listed will make it into the voting thread (so save additional books for the next months!). Also, if the book doesn't fit the theme, I won't add it to this month's voting list, but I will carry it over to the next theme that it does fit under if you would like.
Feel free to nominate one book of your choice in this thread until May 31st, 9pm Eastern.
At around that time, I'll make a voting poll and list all the nominated books in it, and people can vote in the poll until the poll closes (around end of June 4th). Discussion can start on June 15th.
Happy Nominating!