{"product_id":"9780060846749","title":"Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this follow-up to her bestselling \u003ci\u003eSex with Kings\u003c\/i\u003e,Eleanor Herman reveals the truth about what goes on behind the closed door of a queen's boudoir. Impeccably researched, fi lled with pageturning romance, passion, and scandal, \u003ci\u003eSex with the Queen\u003c\/i\u003e explores the scintillating sexual lives of some of our most beloved and infamous female rulers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was the queen, envied and revered, but also miserable, forced to marry a foreign prince sight unseen—a royal ogre who was sadistic, repulsive, mentally incompetent, or sexually impotent—and in some cases all of the above. How did queens fi nd happiness? In courts bristling with testosterone, many royal women had love aff airs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a queen took a lover, anything could happen—from disgrace and death to political victory. Some kings imprisoned erring wives for life; other monarchs named the queen's lover prime minister. At European courts, it was the politics, not the sex, that caused a royal woman's tragedy—or her ultimate triumph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007827034352,"sku":"9780060846749","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060846749_p0.jpg?v=1763767551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060846749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}