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Sex with the Queen
900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

by Eleanor Herman


Introduction
Chapter 1: Life Behind Palace Walls.
Chapter 2: The Queen Takes a Lover.
Chapter 3: Medieval Queens, Tudor Victims.
Chapter 4: The Seventeen Century: Escape from the Gilded Cage.
Chapter 5: Eighteenth Century Russia: The Unchaste Empresses
Chapter 6: Eighteenth Century Europe: Power, Passion and Politics
Chapter 7: The Nineteenth Century: Audacity and Outrage
Chapter 8: The Turn of the Twentieth Century: Struggle for Equality
Chapter 9: Diana, Princess of Many Lovers
Conclusion: The Politics of Adultery
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