Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings (Hardcover)

from dknoch

Filled with fascinating footnotes of history, Princesses Behaving Badly is overflowing with strange and odd tales that never make it into the history texts. While the well-read history buff may be aware of some of the more widely-publicized royal eccentricities (the macabre Countess Bathory, for ...

from akblanchard

In the tradition of compliations such as Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen, this entertaining book combines royalty with sex, madness, extravagance and murder. In short chapters author Linda Rodriguez McRobbie presents summary versions of the lives of women from various time periods and natio...

from JeffV

The war against fairytale princesses is real. Linda Rodriguez McRobbie apparently had enough of Disney-style portrays of a life of luxury and entitlement, and put together this collection of women (many princesses, but some queens, empresses, and other lofty regal titles tossed in for good measur...

from aya.herron

Forget the silk party dresses, glass slippers, royal carriages, banquets, and Prince Charming. The stories of these princesses tell it like it was back in the day. This book is divided into seven sections of very different kinds of women including princesses who were warriors, usurpers, schemers,...

from goldnyght

An interesting premise, but not really all that well executed. First, and most tellingly, a few of the "real" stories are based on mythology or folklore with absolutely no proof of their existence and say as much. Why create a book of real stories and go down that path? It especially irked me in ...