Royal Sex: The Scandalous Love Lives of the British Royal Family - Softcover

Powell, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1445613778 ISBN 13: 9781445613772

Publisher: Amberley Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The current Prince of Wales, our future King, has married his mistress and she will become, barring an accident, our next Queen Consort. This is a unique situation and one that is unlikely to be repeated. Of course, only seventy years ago, his great uncle was in a not dissimilar predicament which cost him his throne. Royal Sex shows how a certain number of key aristocratic families appear to have cornered the market in providing our monarchs with mistresses over successive centuries. The present Duchess of Cornwall is a prime example, her greatgrandmother, Alice Keppel was a mistress of Edward VII. The reason? To capture and exploit royal power and patronage by placing a mistress or favourite at the centre of power.

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About the Author:

Roger Powell has been a professional genealogist for over 40 years. He was until his recent retirement a senior editor at Burke's Peerage and Gentry and Director of Debretts Ancestry Research. He was also a research assistant at the Royal College of Heralds. He is also related to the Duke of Monmouth, another bastard son of Charles II. He lives in Northamptonshire.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1445613778
• ISBN 13: 9781445613772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304