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Amantes dos Reis de Portugal
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Joana Almeida Troni,Ana Cristina Duarte Pereira,Paula Lourenço |
Behind the official history of the Portuguese kings and their marriages with princesses from all Europe lies a story of passions, illegitimate children and illicit love that has never been told. Ladi… |
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The darling strumpet
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Gillian Bagwell |
"She sold her innocence and captured the heart of a king... Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th Century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the co… |
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The Queen's Rival
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Diane Haeger |
From the author of The Queen's Mistake comes the untold story of King Henry VIII's first well-known mistress.
As the beautiful daughter of courtiers, Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount is overjoyed when s… |
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Love and Louis XIV
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Antonia Fraser |
The self-proclaimed Sun King, Louis XIV ruled over the most glorious and extravagant court in seventeenth-century Europe. Now, Antonia Fraser goes behind the well-known tales of Louis's accomplishmen… |
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Borne in blood
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro |
If Anne Rice is the celebrity journalist of vampires, Yarbro is their domestic chronicler. The meticulous 20th entry in her Count Saint-Germain saga (after 2006's Roman Dusk) finds her 4,000-year-old… |
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Sex with the queen
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Eleanor Herman |
Explores the sexual lives of some of the most beloved and infamous female rulers, including Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria. |
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The king's concubine
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Anne O'Brien |
Alice’s story in The King’s Concubine opens a window for us into a fourteenth century world of power and passion where a woman of ambition but low birth must fight to achieve her goal. Alice’s battl… |
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The other Tudors
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Pip Jones |
Everybody thinks they know the tale of King Henry VIII's wives: divorced, beheaded died; divorced, beheaded, survived. But behind this familiar story, lies a far more complex truth. This book brings … |
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Sex with kings
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Eleanor Herman |
Chronicles five hundred years of adultery in European monarchy, discussing how royal mistresses influenced every aspect of European history, and profiling notable women and the kings who loved them. |
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A Very Private Woman
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Nina Burleigh |
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of Pres… |
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Mary Boleyn
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Alison Weir |
Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's seco… |
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The last lover
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Canxue |
"In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other's fantasi… |
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Mary Boleyn
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Alison Weir |
Mary Boleyn is remembered by posterity as a 'great and infamous whore'. She was the mistress of two kings, Francois I of France and Henry VIII of England, and sister to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's seco… |
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The last concubine
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Lesley Downer |
Epic history and romance combine in a sweeping novel featuring the beautiful mistress of the last shogun emperor...How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it? The Last Concubine is … |
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La lune et le serpent
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Michael of Kent, Princess |
Plus que la simple biographie de ces deux femmes qui ont marqué la Renaissance française et dont l'auteure est descendante, c'est toute l'histoire des règnes de François Ier et de son fils Henri II q… |
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Madame de Pompadour
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Evelyne Lever |
"In this biography, French historian Evelyne Lever chronicles the extraordinary life of the most famous and influential mistress of Louis XV: Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour.
This seductive, astute a… |
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Amores trágicos
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Luis Benítez |
"No siempre las historias de amor terminan bien. Aunque no se lleve una estadística concreta, buena parte de ellas tienen un mal final, que en ocasiones hasta puede ser el escenario más desdichado de… |
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The illustrious lady
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Hamilton, Elizabeth Lady |
240 p., [4] leaves of plates : 24 cm |
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Monica's story
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Andrew Morton |
Author "paints a complex and compelling portrait of a generous-hearted but troubled young woman whose dreams of romance had unimaginable consequences."--Jacket. |
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The Prince's mistress
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Hester Davenport |
Mary Robinson, nicknamed 'Perdita' by the Prince of Wales after her role on the London stage, was a woman in whom showmanship and reckless behavior contrasted with romantic sensibility and radical th… |
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