Sex with the Queen (69 page)

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Authors: Eleanor Herman

Prince Pope, 134

Richardis, queen of East Franks, 10

princess brides:

Rivers, Lord George, 242

family reunions for, 31–35

Rivery, Aimée de, 31

fantasy lives of, 13

Roberts, Samuel, 240

foreign retinues of, 29–31

Rochambeau, Comte Jean de, 196

in proxy wedding and bedding

Rochford, George Boleyn,

ceremonies, 17–18

Viscount, 69–70, 83

and wedding-night duties, 20–21

Rochford, Lady Jane, 42, 69,

Purishkevich, Vladimir, 273

79–80, 83, 86

royal bloodline, 6–8, 9

royal children:

queens:

illegitimate, 7–8, 9, 44–45

accusations of adultery against,

as state property, 27–29, 232

9–12;
see also
adultery

royal family:

consort, 39, 40–42

cost-saving measures of, 16–17

finances of, 14, 35–36, 113

never alone, 14, 41

forced into marriages, 3–4, 14,

and public opinion, 261, 272, 285

17–20

servants spying on, 14, 43, 247

and foreign intrigues, 14

royal marriages:

happiness sought by, 258

morganatic, 98

lovers of, 4, 7–8, 46–53

valid on consummation, 22–23

medieval, 55–56

royal palaces, 14–17

pregnancies of, 43–44

hygiene in, 16, 36–38, 66, 130

qualities expected of, 4

separate sleeping quarters in,

reality of life as, 13–14, 15–17

41–42

and royal bloodline, 6–8, 9

traditional rites in, 257–58

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royal proxies, 17–18

Sophie, empress of Russia, 51

royal travel, dangers of, 31–35

Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess,

142–43;
see also
Catherine the

Great

Saint-Simon, duc de, 16, 28

Soubise, princesse de, 2

Saltikov, Sergei, 147–48, 151, 157,

Spencer, Charles, Earl, 9

166

Spiridovich, Alexander, 271

Sarah, duchess of York, 279

Stanislaus, king of Poland, 2, 157,

Savonarola, 11

176–77, 182, 183

Schulenburg, Melusina von, 103,

Stirbey, Barbo, 50, 264–66

106, 112, 124, 125, 126–27

Struensee, Johann von, 50,

Settelen, Peter, 277

213–31

Seven Years’ War, 152

Sully, duc de, 29

Seymour brothers, 68, 74, 78, 80

Shuvalov, Ivan, 144, 145

Simanovich, Aron, 271

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de,

Simpson, Wallis Warfield, 277

208–9

Skavronskaya, Martha, 131–32;
see

Therese, queen of Bavaria, 35

also
Catherine I

ThroneOut, 9

Skourin, Vasily, 153

Tilly, Alexandre de, 195

Smeaton, Mark, 69, 70, 71

Toselli, Enrico, 262

Smith, Sir Sidney, 240

Tudo, Josephina, 189

Sophia, duchess of Hanover, 18, 19,

Twain, Mark, 270

98, 99–100, 101, 103, 104,

116–17

Sophia, Princess, 45–46

Urraca, queen of Castile and Leon,

Sophia Dorothea, princess of

56, 58, 291

Hanover, 42, 97–128, 209,

276

in Ahlden prison, 118, 120–25

Vasilchikov, Alexander, 160–61, 162

arrest of, 116–19

Vermont, lover of Margot de Valois,

death and burial of, 125–26, 128,

234

Victoire, duchess of Kent, 52–53

divorce of, 119–20, 125, 127

Victoria, queen of England:

and George Louis, 97, 99–105,

and Albert, 253

112–13, 119–20, 121

descendants of, 21, 37, 262

and Königsmark, 97–98,

and her mother, 52–53

104–16, 293

and Mr. Brown, 39, 253–55,

letters of, 106, 107–8, 109, 117,

267

127

Villiers, George, 25

Sophia Dorothea, queen of Prussia,

Virgin Mary, 4, 5, 6, 55

122–23

Voltaire, 155, 165, 175

Sophia Magdalena, Princess,

Vorontsova, Elizabeth, 149, 152,

25–26

156–57

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Washington, George, 196, 197

Yermalov, Alexis,

Waterhouse, David, 281

173–75

Weston, Sir Francis, 69, 70

Yoritz, Peter, 170

Whalley, Christopher, 284

Yusupov, Prince Felix,

Wilhelm, kaiser of Germany, 267

272–73

Wilhelmina, Princess, 3, 17

Yusupov, Princess Irina,

William of Tyre, 57

272–73

Wolfenbüttel, Duke Anton Ulrich

von (father), 113–14

Wolfenbüttel, duke of (son), 99,

Zavadovsky, Peter, 169–70

100, 113

Zubov, Plato, 179–80, 181–82, 183,

Wraxall, Nathaniel, 233, 234

184

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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

Putting a first book out there for the world to read is like stand-ing on a podium naked and asking people to judge you, body and soul. This is because each book is a clear reflection of its author, her personality, her thoughts and experiences, her way of look-ing at the world. Judgment, therefore, will not only be about her writing, but about . . .
her soul
!

It is extremely frightening to take that step up to the podium, utterly exposed; the least bit of jiggle, cellulite, or sagging clearly visible to potentially cruel judges.

It is also an exhilarating experience when the judges agree the results are pretty good, and any minor jiggle can be forgiven. To a first-time author, this means not only that she did the right thing giving up her day job to write books, but also removes any lingering doubt in her mind as to whether she is a good human being worthy of inhaling air on this planet.

To all those who supported me in the roller-coaster ride of bringing out
Sex with Kings
while simultaneously working on
Sex with
the Queen,
I thank you most heartily. On the personal side, this is my amazingly patient husband, Michael Dyment; my encourag-ing sister, Christine Merrill; and my supportive father, Walter Herman. I would also like to thank my friends Kitty Jensen and Steve Ledebur, who attended so many
Sex with Kings
book events with an entourage dressed in full Renaissance costume. The ladies-in-waiting on my European book tour—my friends Leslie Harris of Noblesse Oblige costumes, and Lorraine Nordlinger—3 2 3

deserve special gratitude for wearing those tight corsets.

On the professional side I have been extremely fortunate to work with amazing women on both sides of the Atlantic. My edi-tors Angelika Schwartz and Karin Herber-Schlapp at Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt, Germany, and my agent Barbara Perlmutter in New York, have been an absolute delight.

The ongoing laughter I have shared with my contacts at William Morrow has never reduced the high level of profession-alism of our work. Many thanks are due to my editor Lucia Macro; her assistant, Kelly Harms; and my thick-skinned, hard-working publicists, Dee Dee Di Bartolo and Shannon Valcich.

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About the Author

Named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, her grandmother twenty-eight times removed,
ELEANOR HERMAN
is related to most of the royal families of Europe. An accomplished lecturer and TV

and radio commentator on royal issues, Herman lives in McLean, Virginia.

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