Lust, Lies and Monarchy
Each chapter treated by the author, offer to the reader a large explanation of what that monarch meant for that time to England or Scotland including his/her private life with her/his sufferances, doubts, joys and scandals, accompanying it with the explanation of paintings, scultpure realized for him/her by very important painters and sculptures, I want to remember for them all Bernini.
In terms of scandals this book is pretty intriguing and some stories are absolutely funny!
For example we will see that King Charles II had a favorite, and we will learn he asked to his wife of accepting her. The wife, frustrated, depressed, sent him to hell and living many other frustrations because the king spent most time with his favorite and they had together five children while the queen seemed that could not procreate at all.
George IV was absolutely a womanizer. He loved women and so he ended up to marrying two women. When one of them said him she wasn't interested in a story like that one the king tried to kill himself and so the poor lady accepted to marry him.
They found a disgraceful priest who celebrated this second marriage, Rev. Robert Burt his name, although maybe the happiest creature of all these stories was Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victoria.
Eccentric and exuberant girl, she was a creative and loved to surround herself with painters and sculpturs; she started an affair when 18 years with a member of the royal housold. Impregnated, the baby once born was given up to a family close to the royal family.
Immediately after that, Louise felt the influence of the sculptur Joseph Edgar Boehm becoming her lover although he was much more old than her. He was a married man and this relationship continued per many years. At a certain point, searching for some stabilization she married a man who later resulted gay; Louise tried all her best for not let go her spouse outside during the night, searching for young workers. Louise, considering the demostic private problems she had with her husband, guessed that she had to continue her relationship with Boehm. Pity that the poor man died once tragically in his studio, but oh, there are two versions: the first one that Louise discovered the body once that she went to his studio; the second that the poor man died while having a sexual intercourse with Louise.
Anyway, Louise spent a very long age and she peacefully died at the age of 91.
It would be possible thanks to the DNA to see if the child Louise had had was his one as everyone said but investigation was blocked as you will read. Pity.
Much more tragic the past of the monarchy plenty of devastating facts. Poison, murderers.
An episodes I felt horribly was the murder of Edward and Richard, sons of Edward IV. They have been brutally killed for a story of power and succession to the throne.
They were beautiful!
Same story occurred to Lady Jane Grey, executed cutting her head after just few days of reign.
The book arrives 'til Elizabeth II.
At the end of the book four Royal London Tours for admiring these paintings, real masterpieces.
Beautiful, highly recommended!
I thank Museyon Books for the copy of this book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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