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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Friedman, Dennis. Ladies of the bedchamber. London : Peter Owen, 2003 (OCoLC)606935466 |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dennis Friedman |
ISBN: | 0720611601 9780720611601 |
OCLC Number: | 50582323 |
Description: | 208 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Henry VIII: Liaisons Dangereuses -- Charles II: And So to Bed -- James II: And That, Said James, Is That -- William IV: Sailor King or 'Silly Billy'? -- Edward VII: Rien Ne Va Plus -- Edward VIII: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Charles, Prince of Wales: 'When You Are King, Dilly Dilly ... '. |
Responsibility: | Dennis Friedman. |
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Abstract:
This text examines the role played by the mistress, the concubine and finally commercial sex, the ready availability of which possibly protected the virginal sanctity of marriage in the years preceding today's less holy alliances.
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