Royal Affairs

A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy

By: Leslie Carroll

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Paperback | 3 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Foreword	p. 3
The Angevins	p. 9
Henry II	p. 11
And Rosamund de Clifford	p. 13
And Alys (or Alais), Countess of the Vexin	p. 17
The Plantagenets	p. 21
Edward II	p. 23
And Piers Gaveston	p. 25
And Hugh Despenser the Younger	p. 25
Isabella of France (Queen to Edward II)	p. 25
And Roger Mortimer	p. 25
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster	p. 39
And Katherine Swynford	p. 39
Lancaster and York	p. 51
Edward IV	p. 53
And Jane Shore	p. 55
The Tudors	p. 61
Mary Tudor	p. 63
And Charles Brandon	p. 63
Henry VIII	p. 71
And Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount	p. 73
And Mary Boleyn	p. 76
And Anne Boleyn	p. 79
And Jane Seymour	p. 102
And Kathryn Howard	p. 111
Kathryn Howard	p. 111
And Francis Dereham	p. 111
And Thomas Culpeper	p. 111
Elizabeth I	p. 132
And Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester	p. 134
And Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex	p. 147
The Stuarts	p. 159
Mary, Queen of Scots	p. 161
And Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley	p. 164
And James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell	p. 164
James I of England and Ireland (also James VI of Scotland)	p. 176
And George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham	p. 178
Charles II	p. 185
And Lucy Walter	p. 187
And Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland	p. 188
And Frances Teresa Stuart	p. 198
And Nell Gwyn	p. 203
And Louise Renee de Penancoet de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth	p. 214
And Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin	p. 222
James II of England/James VII of Scotland	p. 228
And Anne Hyde	p. 230
William III and Mary II	p. 235
And Frances Apsley	p. 238
And Elizabeth Villiers	p. 238
And Arnold Joost van Keppel	p. 238
Anne	p. 249
And Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough	p. 251
And Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham	p. 251
The Hanovers	p. 259
George I	p. 261
And Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington and Countess of Leinster	p. 263
And (simultaneously) Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster	p. 263
George II	p. 272
And Henrietta Howard	p. 273
And Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden	p. 277
George IV	p. 280
And Mary Robinson	p. 282
And Maria Fitzherbert	p. 291
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales	p. 309
The "Delicate Investigation" and The Bill of Pains and Penalties	p. 309
Frederick, Duke of York	p. 335
And Mary Anne Clarke	p. 335
William IV	p. 340
And Dorothy Jordan	p. 340
Victoria	p. 357
And John Brown	p. 359
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha	p. 369
Edward VII	p. 371
And Lillie Langtry	p. 373
And Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick	p. 381
And Alice Keppel	p. 386
The Windsors	p. 397
Edward VIII	p. 399
And Wallis Warfield Simpson	p. 401
Charles, Prince of Wales (Introduction)	p. 416
Diana, Princess of Wales	p. 419
And James Hewitt	p. 419
Charles, Prince of Wales	p. 429
And Camilla Parker Bowles	p. 429
Acknowledgments	p. 439
Selected Bibliography	p. 441
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Royal Affairs

A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy

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