Table of Contents
Introduction Strange Bedfellows vii
Chapter 1 The King and His Husband 1
Chapter 2 Traces Remain: Palaces Rise and Fall 23
Chapter 3 Sweet Child and Wife: The Forbidden Loves of James I 29
Chapter 4 Charles II and the Trick Worth Forty Wenches 47
Chapter 5 William III's Ménage à Trois 75
Chapter 6 Dark Deeds at Night: Queen Anne's Ladies 87
Chapter 7 Monsters and Madmen: The Hanoverians 95
Chapter 8 Bad Behaviour: The Sons of George III 119
Chapter 9 John Browns Legs: Victoria's Second Husband 151
Chapter 10 Hell-Bent on Pleasure: Edward VII's 'Loose Box' 167
Chapter 11 Brothel Creepers: Prince Eddy and the Boys 183
Chapter 12 'Not a Woman at All' 197
Chapter 13 Rent Boys at Clarence House 237
Chapter 14 Love and Loss: Princess Margaret, Diana and Meghan Markle 245
Chapter 15 Car-Crash Andy: The Prince and the Paedophile 273
Epilogue 279
Bibliography 283