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Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
Royal Pains A Rogues' Gallery of Brats Brutes and Bad Seeds Author:Leslie Carroll The author of Notorious Royal Marriages presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals. — The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples. In an effort to stave off wrinkles, sixteenth-century Hungarian countess Erzsebet Bathory bathed in the blood o... more »f virgins, and for kicks and giggles devised more ingenious forms of torture than even the über-violent autocrats Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula and Ivan the Terrible ever imagined. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic the appearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole her man. The Duke of Cumberland's sexcapades and subsequent clandestine marriage led to a law that still binds Englnad's royal family. And the libidinous Pauline Bonaparte scandalized her imperial brother, Napoleon, by having a golden drinking goblet fashioned in the shape of her breast.
Chock-full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal Pains is a rollicking compendium of the most infamous, capricious, and insatiable blue bloods of Europe.
King John, 1166 or 1167-1216, ruled England: 1199-1216 --
Vlad III of Wallachia ("Vlad the Impaler"), 1431-1476, ruled Romania: 1448; 1456-1462; 1476 --
George, Duke of Clarence, 1449-1478, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, 1452-1485, ruled England: 1483-1485 --
Ivan IV ("Ivan the Terrible"), 1530-1584, ruled Russia: 1533-1584 --
Lettice Knollys, 1543-1634 --
ErzseÌbet (Elizabeth) Bathory ("The Blood Countess"), 1560-1614 --
Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, 1745-1790 --
Pauline Bonaparte, 1780-1825 --
Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia, 1858-1889 --
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, 1864-1892 --
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1930-2002« less
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