Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy

Leslie Carroll

Penguin Group US, Jun 3, 2008 - History - 464 pages

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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Review: Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy

User Review  - Nicole Yovanoff - Goodreads

I really enjoyed Leslie Carroll's series on royal relationships. I really enjoyed how there was a bit of perspective of the mistress and what happened to her after the relationship ended. People may ...

Review: Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy

User Review  - Cindy - Goodreads

Recommended by a library patron this was an extremely interesting book about British monarchial infidelity from the medieval Angevin dynasty through the Plantagenets, Hanoverians, Saxe-Cothburgs to ...

About the author

Native New Yorker Leslie Carroll is also a professional actress, dramatist, and journalist. Her first two books, contemporary romantic comedies set in her hometown, won a series of rave reviews. She also writes historical and New York "tart noir" detective fiction. Leslie has worked more temp jobs than she cares to remember in the fields of politics, advertising, public relations, and -- far too frequently -- law. But it's all ripe for social satire and fodder for fiction!

Bibliographic information

• Title: Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy
• Author: Leslie Carroll
• Publisher: Penguin Group US, 2008
• ISBN: 1440634777, 9781440634772
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Great Britain; History / Social History