Rent Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

Synopsis

Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, Cleopatra. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad, often gruesome, ends. All too often, even the most devious scheming and ruthless selling-out of their sisters hasn't been enough to keep them from the guillotine, the stake, the nunnery, or–in more recent years–the paparazzi. Blending meticulous research with colorful narratives and original art, Doomed Queens charts centuries of royal plotting, backstabbing, and intrigue with wit, style, and more than a taste of the macabre.
 
Complete with a cautionary moral for each doomed queen, life lessons, sidebars, quizzes, and more, Doomed Queens is a wry tribute to those ill-fated power brokers who paved the way for womankind, one spectacular regal demise at a time. Filled with juicy tales of illicit love, feigned madness, and unthinkable betrayal, here is a book that will appeal to history buffs and fans of The Tudors as well as the millions of readers of royal biographies and historical fiction.
 

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