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When kings marry foreign strangers for dynastic or financial reasons and queens are trained in piety over sensuality, royal mistresses seem an inevitability. Kings had flings and extramarital relationships through much of European history, and in her own first book, Herman offers, with relish and dry wit, a delightful overview of these sexual escapades. Her subjects are international, though France dominates and England gets a powerful showing. It's a lively account, organized by topic e.g., "The Fruits of Sin—Royal Bastards." Herman weaves in a larger pattern the tales of recurrent figures, such as Louis XIV's mistress Athénaïs de Montespan and Madame de Pompadour, who is perhaps more famous than her royal lover, Louis XV. Fashions, love potions and cheerful conversation kept kings enthralled while mistresses made themselves wealthy, husbands acquiesced or simmered, courtiers wooed the mistresses and the public admired or ridiculed. A striking quantity of these relationships continued despite arguments and also the not enough sex. George II even felt it necessary to keep a mistress for his reputation despite actually loving his wife. Herman ends on the modern note, recounting how Camilla Parker-Bowles famously introduced herself to Prince Charles by noting that her great-grandmother had been his great-great-grandfather's mistress. Herman ends over a serious note, but her wit and perceptiveness will carry readers through this royally pleasurable romp.
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Certainly an appealing title. And Herman's spirited reputation royal "mistresshood" is obviously a catchy read. Her book is not really a collective biography of mistresses of European kings over the ages, although she does pay relatively brief but nevertheless trenchant visits to famous ones plus some less than famous. No, her book is a lot more an accounting in the "art and science" of being a royal mistress, ranging over time in the "departing mists" of medieval Europe (before which "royal sin" was kept from public knowledge) for the present day (namely, Prince Charles' girlfriend, Camilla Parker-Bowles). Her treatment can be a royal-mistresses-for-dummies take a glance at male monarchs having sex around the side. She establishes a basic chronological history of the institution and assigns it a group of general characteristics (for instance, the paramour is "never to become tired, ill, complaining, or grief-stricken"). The author explains what mistresses got beyond their relationships, and she or he looks in to the issue of methods mistresses traditionally got along (or didn't) with queen wives. History made as buoyant as fiction. Brad Hooper
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