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In noble surfaces bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, virile cardinals—how, and refined courtiers did repressed happiness is found by regal ladies? Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard rested with one. Henry VIII had both of these beheaded.Catherine the Truly Amazing had her idiot husband killed and dominated the Russian kingdom with an extended listing of attractive small favorites.Marie Antoinette fell in love with the fine Remedial depend Axel Fersen, who tried valiantly to save her in the guillotine.Princess Diana offered up her structure bodyguard to savor numerous love affairs, which unfortunately resulted in her early death.In this impeccably researched, scandalously understandable follow-up to her Ny Times best-seller Sex with Leaders, Eleanor Herman shows the reality by what has traditionally gone on behind the closed-door of the king's bedroom.