Sex with the Queen

In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness? - Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.- Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.- Marie Antoinette fell in love with the handsome Swedish count Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to rescue her from the guillotine.- Princess Diana gave up her palace bodyguard to enjoy countless love affairs, which tragically led to her early death.In this impeccably researched, scandalously readable follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings, Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what has historically gone on behind the closed door of the queen's boudoir.