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From Nero’s nagging mom (whom he discovered particularly disturbing after taking her as his lover) to Catherine’s strong of studs (no longer of the equine selection), here’s a wickedly pleasant have a look at essentially the most scandalous royal doings you by no means realized approximately in historical past elegance.

Gleeful, naughty, from time to time perverted-like such a lot of of the topped heads themselves-A Treasury of Royal Scandals items the most productive (the worst?) of royal misbehavior in the course of the a while. From historic Rome to Edwardian England, from the lavish rooms of Versailles to the dankest corners of the Bastille, the nice royals of Europe have excelled at savage parenting, fatal contention, pathological lust, and assembly loss of life with the maximum indignity-or simply very unhealthy good fortune.