This book is like People magazine of past royal marriages. It gives you all the juicy gossip and should probably be considered a guilty pleasure, much like People magazine. I was disappointed, that of all the "notorious" royal marriages, Edward II of England and wife Isabella of France were not ...
I really like reading these kinds of books and this one is no exception. I like that Carroll can admit when she doesn't know something or that it is just spectulation. I think that's important when it comes to history in general. But the book itself is very well structured and I loved the connect...
Eleven stories of royals gone wild!!! Some I had read about before so nothing new there like Vlad thenImpaler (Dracula) and the Countess of Bathory who murdered young girls and bathed in their blood thinking it would maintain her youth. Truly some were psychopaths which probably came from inbreed...
Question: What do Amy, the new mom; Meriel, the West-Indian housekeeper; Claude and Naomi, the alternative couple; Faith, the elegant widow; and Talia, the super-skinny ballerina have in common? Answer: Abso-freakin'-lutely-nothing! Except that they all live lives of not-so-quiet desperat...
With her sharp wit and riveting style, Leslie Carroll plunges us deep into the world of the overscheduled children of New York, and the oversexed, over-lipoed, overpaid people who raise them -or pay their nannies! What happens when a trophy wife gets turned in for someone even younger, blonder, ...
tr. Informal1. To make love to; court or woo.2. To have a love affair with.In fairy tales, royal romances are those happily-ever-afters that involve an unmarried pair of lovers, big dresses, shimmering jewels, and nights of untold ecstasy, although you won’t find that last bit in any of the Disne...