Sex with Kings (32 page)
Authors: Eleanor Herman
Mercoeur, duc de
Mercoeur, duchesse de
Metternich, Princess
Mirapoix, Madame de
mistresses
children of
deaths of
duties and hardships of
husbands of
on king's death
married to monarchs
necessity of
perks of
poverty of
power and political aspirations of
public contempt for
see also maîtresse-en-titre; specific mistresses
Modena, Mary of
Molière
Monaco, Princesse de
Monceaux, marquise de
Estrées, Gabrielle d'
Mons, Anna
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
Montespan, Athénaïs de
Montespan, marquis de
Montez, Lola
Montijo, Eugénie de
Montmorency, Charlotte de
Montmorency, duc de
Montmorency, Françoise de “Fosseuse,”
Montpensier, Anne-Marie de
Mortemart, Athénaïs
Montespan, Athénaïs de
Munk, Kirsten
Â
Nancy, bishop of
Napoleon I, emperor of France
Napoleon III, emperor of France
Nemours, duchesse de
Normandy, duke of
Noyer, Madame de
Â
O'Murphy, Louise
Orkney, duchess of
Orkney, earl of
Orléans, Philippe d'
Ormonde, duke of
Ornano, Philippe Antoine d'
Â
Palmer, Anne
Palmer, Barbara
Palmer, Roger
Parabère, Marie-Madeleine de
Parabère, Monsieur de
Parker-Bowles, Andrew
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Pedro, king of Portugal
Pedro, prince of Portugal
Pedro, prince of Portugal
Pedro, king of Portugal
Pembroke, marchioness of
Boleyn, Anne
Pepys, Samuel
Perrers, Alice
Petersfield, Baroness
Kéroualle, Louise de
Peter the Great, czar of Russia
Philip II, king of Spain
Philip III, king of Spain
Philip IV, king of Spain
Philippe, duc d'Orléans
Pitt, William
Plantagenet, Geoffrey
Poisson, Jeanne
Pompadour, marquise de
Poitiers, Diane de
Pöllnitz, Karl von, count of Saxony
Pompadour, marquise de
Etioles, Jeanne-Antoinette d'
Pope, Alexander
Portsmouth, duchess of
Kéroualle, Louise de
Praslin, duchesse de
press, free
printing press
Protestant Church, Protestantism
Puyguilhem, marquis de
Â
queens
kings and
mistresses and
purpose of
see also specific queens
Â
Racine, Jean Baptiste
Raime, Mademoiselle
Ravaillac
Ray, John
Renaissance
Reresby, Sir John
Ricci, Marie-Anne de
Richard I, king of England
Richelieu, duc de
Richmond, duchess of
Richmond, duke of
Rietz, Wilhelmine
Lichtenau, Countess
Robert the Devil
Rochester, Lord
Romans, Mademoiselle de
Romsey, Lord
Royal Marriages Act of 1772
Rudolf, Crown Prince
Â
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin
Saint-Simon, duc de
Santi, serving woman of Archduchess Johanna
Scarron, Françoise
Schratt, Katharina
Schulenberg, Ermengarda Melusina von
Sedley, Catherine
Serguidi, secretary of state of Tuscany
Settlement Act of 1701
Seven Years' War
Sévigné, Madame de
Sèvres porcelain factory
Shakespeare, William
Shand, Camilla
Shand, Major
Shore, Jane
Simpson, Ernest
Simpson, Wallis Warfield
smallpox
Louis XV with
Mary II with
mistresses nursing monarchs with
scars from
Schulenberg with
Sobieski, John, king of Poland
Sophia Dorothea, queen of Prussia
Sorel, Agnes
Soubise, prince de
Soubise, princesse de
Spencer, Lady
Diana, Princess of Wales
St. Albans, duke of
Staatliche Museum
Stainville, comte de
Stanhope, Philip Dormer
Stuart, Frances
Suffolk, duchess of
Schulenberg Ermengarda Melusina von
Sully, duc de
Â
taboret
Taisey-Châtenoy, marquise de
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de
Teschen, princess of
Therese, queen of Bavaria
Tournehem, Le Normant de
Trundle, Guy
Tuscany, archduchess of
Â
Uriah the Hittite
Ursins, Jean Juvenal des
Â
Vaillant, Marshal
Valerie, Archduchess
Valois, Marguerite de
Vatel, François
Ventimille, Madame de
Mailly, Pauline-Félicité de
Ventimille, Monsieur de
Verneuil, marquise de
Entragues, Henriette-Catherine de Balzac d'
Vesci, Eustace de
Vetsera, Maria
Villiers, Elizabeth
Villiers, George
Visconti, Primi
Voltaire
Â
Wadsworth, Mary
Waldersee, Count Alfred von
Waldersee, Countess Mary von
Walewska, Maria, Countess
Walewski, Anastase, Count
Walmoden, Amelia von
Yarmouth, Lady
Walpole, Lord Horace
War of the Austrian Succession
Warwick, Daisy, Lady
Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany
Wilhelmina of Prussia
Willem, crown prince of the Netherlands
William, Frederick, prince of England
William, Prince.
See
Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany
William, Prince of Wales
William I the Conqueror, king of England
William III, king of England and Scotland
William IV, king of Great Britain
Clarence, duke of
Windsor, duchess of
Simpson, Wallis Warfield
Windsor, duke of
Edward VIII, king of the United Kingdom
Wycherley, William
Â
Yarmouth, Lady
York, duke of
Â
Zamet
Zorreguieta, Maxima
I am inexpressibly grateful to many individuals for their encouragement and assistance.
My late mother, the artist Louise Herman Donahue, nurtured me with creativity, encouraged my curiosity, and bequeathed to me unforgettable love and laughter. She gave me the priceless gift of dreaming, a gift that forever remains with me although she does not.
My father, journalist Walter Focke Herman, proud of his medieval royal ancestors, inspired me in my earliest years to love history. Sitting at his knee I first heard the screams of battle, smelled the smoke of burning castles, saw the pageantry of royal processions. To him I am also grateful for his hawkeyed editing of the manuscript.
My sister, Christine Merrill, an artist of rare talents successfully living her dream, prodded me constantlyâoften to my great annoyanceâto live mine. I don't believe I would have completed this project without her stubborn but loving insistence that I do so.
Many thanks to Susanne Becerril, Karen Griswold, and Helena Hoogterp for their unceasing encouragement and support of this project and its author.
I am particularly grateful to my good friend Leslie Harris, proprietor and designer of Noblesse Oblige Renaissance costumes, for getting me into the spirit, and the corset, of a royal mistress. Wearing one of their gorgeous but restricting gowns
has sharpened my understanding of their gorgeous but restricted lives.
I am astonished at the patience of my wonderful husband, Michael Dyment, who listens to my nonstop chatter of kings and queens, of mistresses and royal bastards, and tolerates my elaborate court costumes at countless events without showing a shred of embarrassment.
Clearly this book would not have been possible without the diaries, letters, dispatches, and memoirs of the past, nor indeed without the dozens of biographies and histories written by modern authors reporting and interpreting the original sources. To all writersâpast and presentâupon whose work I have heavily relied, and who are listed in the bibliography, I am deeply grateful.
And lastly, to make sense out of the chaotic events of the past, the historian must view them through a particular philosophical prism. For this I am immeasurably indebted to
A Course in Miracles,
a work of keen psychological insight and great spiritual power.
E
LEANOR
H
ERMAN
was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied journalism and German at Towson State University and languages in Europe. For eight years she was associate publisher for North America for NATO's
Nations and Partners for Peace
magazine. She is married and lives in McLean, Virginia, where she writes history from a woman's perspective.
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Cover design by Beth Middleworth
Cover painting: The Great Odalisque, 1814, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas, 91cm x 182cm, photograph by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
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