SummaryA Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty,
Destiny, and Desire
A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history
of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous—and
infamous-monarchs.
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 Charles and Di—and
ponders how dynasties ever survived at all.
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