{"product_id":"9781435138865","title":"Mad Kings \u0026 Queens","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europe's most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe respectability of the royal position is well and truly tossed aside by the whimsy and the wanton depravity of generations of mad European monarchs, including:\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his subjects.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe vampiric ruler who bathed in the blood of young women. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe king of excess who beheaded his wives. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Kings and Queens\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular celebration of seven hundred years of royal eccentricity, detailing a catalogue of madness and exploring the finer intricacies of royal breeding that lay at its root.","brand":"Fall River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156841382128,"sku":"9781435138865","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781435138865_p0.jpg?v=1769904008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781435138865","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}