Table of Contents
Foreword 3
The Angevins 9
Henry II 11
And Rosamund de Clifford 13
And Alys (or Alais), Countess of the Vexin 17
The Plantagenets 21
Edward II 23
And Piers Gaveston 25
And Hugh Despenser the Younger 25
Isabella of France (Queen to Edward II) 25
And Roger Mortimer 25
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster 39
And Katherine Swynford 39
Lancaster and York 51
Edward IV 53
And Jane Shore 55
The Tudors 61
Mary Tudor 63
And Charles Brandon 63
Henry VIII 71
And Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount 73
And Mary Boleyn 76
And Anne Boleyn 79
And Jane Seymour 102
And Kathryn Howard 111
Kathryn Howard 111
And Francis Dereham 111
And Thomas Culpeper 111
Elizabeth I 132
And Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 134
And Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 147
The Stuarts 159
Mary, Queen of Scots 161
And Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley 164
And James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell 164
James I of England and Ireland (also James VI of Scotland) 176
And George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 178
Charles II 185
And Lucy Walter 187
And Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland 188
And Frances Teresa Stuart 198
And Nell Gwyn 203
And Louise Renee de Penancoet de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth 214
And Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin 222
James II of England/James VII of Scotland 228
And Anne Hyde 230
William III and Mary II 235
And Frances Apsley 238
And Elizabeth Villiers 238
And Arnold Joost van Keppel 238
Anne 249
And Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough 251
And Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham 251
The Hanovers 259
George I 261
And Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington and Countess of Leinster 263
And (simultaneously) Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster 263
George II 272
And Henrietta Howard 273
And Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden 277
George IV 280
And Mary Robinson 282
And Maria Fitzherbert 291
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales 309
The "Delicate Investigation" and The Bill of Pains and Penalties 309
Frederick, Duke of York 335
And Mary Anne Clarke 335
William IV 340
And Dorothy Jordan 340
Victoria 357
And John Brown 359
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 369
Edward VII 371
And Lillie Langtry 373
And Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick 381
And Alice Keppel 386
The Windsors 397
Edward VIII 399
And Wallis Warfield Simpson 401
Charles, Prince of Wales (Introduction) 416
Diana, Princess of Wales 419
And James Hewitt 419
Charles, Prince of Wales 429
And Camilla Parker Bowles 429
Acknowledgments 439
Selected Bibliography 441
