Royal affairs: a lusty romp through the extramarital adventures that rocked the British monarchy

Foreword

The Angevins

Henry II

And Rosamund de Clifford

And Alys (or Alais), Countess of the Vexin

The Plantagenets

Edward II

And Piers Gaveston

And Hugh Despenser the Younger

Isabella of France (Queen to Edward II)

And Roger Mortimer

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

And Katherine Swynford

Lancaster and York

Edward IV

And Jane Shore

The Tudors

Mary Tudor

And Charles Brandon

Henry VIII

And Elizabeth "Bessie" Blount

And Mary Boleyn

And Anne Boleyn

And Jane Seymour

And Kathryn Howard

Kathryn Howard

And Francis Dereham

And Thomas Culpeper

Elizabeth I

And Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester

And Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

The Stuarts

Mary, Queen of Scots

And Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

And James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell

James I of England and Ireland (also James VI of Scotland)

And George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

Charles II

And Lucy Walter

And Barbara Villiers, Lady Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland

And Frances Teresa Stuart

And Nell Gwyn

And Louise Renee de Penancoet de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth

And Hortense Mancini, Duchesse Mazarin

James II of England/James VII of Scotland

And Anne Hyde

William III and Mary II

And Frances Apsley

And Elizabeth Villiers

And Arnold Joost van Keppel

Anne

And Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

And Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham

The Hanovers

George I

And Sophia Charlotte von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington and Countess of Leinster

And (simultaneously) Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal and Duchess of Munster

George II

And Henrietta Howard

And Amalie Sophie Marianne von Wallmoden

George IV

And Mary Robinson

And Maria Fitzherbert

Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales

The "Delicate Investigation" and The Bill of Pains and Penalties

Frederick, Duke of York

And Mary Anne Clarke

William IV

And Dorothy Jordan

Victoria

And John Brown

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

Edward VII

And Lillie Langtry

And Frances Evelyn "Daisy" Greville, Countess of Warwick

And Alice Keppel

The Windsors

Edward VIII

And Wallis Warfield Simpson

Charles, Prince of Wales (Introduction)

Diana, Princess of Wales

And James Hewitt

Charles, Prince of Wales

And Camilla Parker Bowles

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography