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'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.' William Shakespeare'I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.' Catherine the Great To many, Europe has been the pinnacle of world sophistication and culture. Yet beneath the power, the glamour, and the splendour there has also been scandal, mystery and skullduggery. Kings & Queens of Europe: A Dark History peels away the glory and the glitz to take a wry look at what has really gone on in the corridors, bedrooms and dungeons of European power from the fourteenth century up to the present day. Including Vlad the Impaler's stakes, Elizabeth Bathory's razor blades, Philip IV's starvation of the Knights Templars, the man in the iron mask, many mad monarchs from Juana I the Mad of Spain to Ludwig II of Bavaria, zand the troubled life of Princess Grace of Monaco, Kings & Queens of Europe: A Dark History, is illustrated throughout and offers a lively, highly varied portrait of continental European monarchy.
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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
abdication 71–2, 154–5, 197–8, 200, 203, 209, 212
acromegaly 140
Albert II of Belgium, King 231
Albert of Monaco, Prince 237, 245, 247, 248, 249
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince 165, 166
Alexander VII, Pope 155, 157, 157, 159
Alexandra of Greece, Princess 194
Alexandra of Russia, Tsarina 166, 168–9, 170, 170, 171
Alexis, Tsarevich 165, 167, 168–70, 171
Alfonsito of Spain, Prince 171, 174, 175
Alfonso XIII of Spain, King 168, 171, 173, 175, 176
Alfred, Prince 165
Alice, Princess 165, 168
Amsberg, Claus-Georg 205–6, 207, 208, 209–10, 212
Antoinette, Marie 57
Antonescu, General Ion 189, 189, 190, 190, 191
Arthur, Prince 165, 166
Astrid of Belgium, Queen 226, 227, 227
Azzolino, Cardinal Decio 161
Baels, Liliane 227
Barbara of Spain, Queen Maria Teresa 144–5, 147, 147
Baring, Evelyn 228
Bathory, Elizabeth 27–38, 27, 36
Bathory, Stephen 26, 27, 29
Baudouin of Belgium, King 227, 231
Bavaria 59–93
Beatrice, Princess 165, 166, 173, 175, 176, 176
Beatrix of the Netherlands, Princess 197, 205, 207, 208, 208, 209–10, 212, 213...
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. PHILIP IV OF FRANCE AND THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
- II. ELIZABETH BATHORY THE BLOOD COUNTESS
- III. TWO FRENCH ROYAL RAKES: LOUIS XIV AND LOUIS XV
- IV. THE KING AND THE VAMP: LUDWIG I OF BAVARIA AND LOLA MONTEZ
- V. CASTLES IN THE AIR: THE TRAGIC STORY OF LUDWIG II OF BAVARIA
- VI. THE MAYERLING TRAGEDY
- VII. MADNESS IN THE SPANISH ROYAL FAMILY
- VIII. MORE MADNESS IN SPAIN
- IX. QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN: A QUESTION OF GENDER
- X. HAEMOPHILIA: THE ROYAL DISEASE
- XI. KINGS AND COMMUNISTS: CAROL II OF ROMANIA
- XII. THE NETHERLANDS: A ROYAL FAMILY IN TROUBLE
- XIII. KING LEOPOLD II AND THE BELGIAN CONGO
- XIV. THE GRIMALDIS OF MONACO
- MAP OF KEY LOCATIONS
- INDEX
- PICTURE CREDITS