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title: "A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors"
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# A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors

**Brand:** michael farquhar
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- **What is this?** A Treasury of Royal Scandals: The Shocking True Stories History's Wickedest, Weirdest, Most Wanton Kings, Queens, Tsars, Popes, and Emperors by michael farquhar
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Loved it!
  

*by P***8 on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2017*

I've read many of Farquhar's books, and have loved them all. This one is no exception.I've read "Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain" and was hesitant to purchase this book, as I feared it would be a repeat of the same stories. It is not. This book includes stories about the first Popes and some of the Roman Emperors, as well as stories about Spanish nobles and famous Italians (the Medici family really would be a great next book for this author to write about). Honestly, I could stand to never read about the early Popes and Roman Emperors ever again (really unseemly stuff), but I was grateful for their inclusion just to be reminded of the world we live and how we got to where we are today.Like all of this author's books, I'd recommend stopping every few chapters, and reading more about these historical figures online. It really gives a better insight into how these people fit into the overall history of our world.Overall, a great read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting, amusing, but not revelatory.
  

*by G***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2015*

This an interesting and reasonably well written expose of what one might call "monarchs behaving badly." In many cases amusing and frequently shocking. However, being fairly familiar with the subject, there were only a few tidbits with which I was not already familiar. My one major complaint is the all-too stereotypical Eurocentric scope of the book. While I am well aware that the subject of royal pecadillos is too vast to be covered by a single book, I find it curious that no continent other than Europe is even mentioned. Moreover, many European monarchies are likewise not mentioned, such as the Scandinavian monarchies, Belgium, Holland, etc. The author also jumps around chronologically, talking about a particular sovereign, and then returning to the same individual sometime later. In addition, there were a couple of notable inaccuracies: the first sentence of Part VII declares "the Roman emperors of the first century were Europe's first true monarchs..." Putting aside the fact that the Roman emperors were not initially considered (officially at least) to be hereditary monarchs, what about an obscure little guy known as Alexander the Great, some three centuries before Caesar Augustus (NOT Julius Caesar) was proclaimed the first "Imperator" (the Latin word merely means "commander")? As far as I know, Macedon, or Macedonia IS in Europe, and Alexander was most emphatically a king! Secondly, we are told, towards the end of the book that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were slain in OCTOBER of 1918, when, in fact the slaughter occurred in JULY of that year. All in all a good read, but not without  its flaws.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Lots of fun for royal watchers
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2002*

Michael Farquhar's "A Treasury of Royal Scandals" will delight inveterate royal watchers!  As he sniffs in the introduction, he covers not the current crop of royals, as none of them have provided anything worthy of the title of "scandalous," but he goes in-depth to provide us with (as the book is subtitled) "shocking true stories of history's wickedest, weirdest, most wanton kings, queens, tsars, popes, and emperors."Farquhar provides a handy family tree for major royal families at the beginning--it's most helpful when the scandals reach a dizzying pitch and you need to sort out which royal is plotting to overthrow/marry for money/murder which other royal.  He debunks an awful lot of incorrect gossip (like the oft-told tale of Catherine the Great's predilection for beastiality) and comes up with wonderful gems of dirt that will be deliciously unfamiliar to most readers.  This is not a scholarly work by any means--it's kind of like a historical PEOPLE magazine, focusing on the faux pas, the foibles, and the fevered doings of all sorts of royals throughout history.  Great good fun!

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