Full name: Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire

Author: Leslie Carroll Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies, Historical fiction, Romance Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780451229014 0451229010

Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love--and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia's Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici--all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England's Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge... Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe--from the Angevins to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry--and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all. Similar books: Royal Affairs by Leslie Carroll Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman Royal Babylon by Karl Shaw A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar Doomed Queens by Kris Waldherr Sex with Kings by Eleanor Herman Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer What the Butler Saw by E. S. Turner Queen Victoria's Matchmaking by Deborah Cadbury The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman Born to Rule by Julia P. Gelardi Love Stories by Jonathan Ned Katz Flushed by W. Hodding Carter Game of Queens by Sarah Gristwood A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman