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Mad Kings and Queens: History's Most Famous Raving Royals
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Author
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Alison Rattle & Allison Vale.
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Publisher
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Sterling
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Format
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paperback, Illustrated
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Product Dimensions
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7.05
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5.15
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ISBN
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9781402763069
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Pages/Publication Date
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160/2008
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Daedalus Item Code
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22267
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Less a detailed history than a collection of entertaining royal anecdotes, this book offers 40 portraits of European nobility at its most ignoble—the dangerous, the delusional, and the debauched. Here are a queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit, a bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his own subjects, a countess who bathed in the blood of virgins, and the brother of Peter the Great, known as Ivan the Ignorant.
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