Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Charles VII 1405-1461 Ruled France: 1422-1461 and Agnès Sorel (1409-1449) 1
Henri II 1519-1559 Ruled France: 1547-1559 and Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566) 11
Louis XIV 1658-1715 Ruled France: 1643-1715 and Françoise-Athénaï's de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan (1641-1707) and Françoise d'Aubigné, Madame Scarron, marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719) 31
Sophia Dorothea of Celle 1666-1726 and Philipp Christoph von Königsmark (1665-1694) 97
Louis XV 1710-1774 Ruled France: 1715-1774 and Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764) and Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (1743-1793) 121
Catherine the Great (Catherine II) 1729-1796 Ruled Russia: 1762-1796 and Grigory Potemkin (1739-1791) 193
Caroline Mathilde 1751-1775 Queen of Denmark: 1766-1772 and Johann Friedrich Struensee (1737-1772) 227
Marie Antoinette 1755-1795 Queen of France: 1774-1792 and Count Axel von Fersen (1755-1810) 255
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821 As Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, from 1804-1814 and for 3 months in the spring of 1815 and Marie Walewska (1786-1817) 297
Ludwig I of Bavaria 1786-1868 Ruled: 1825-1848 and Lola Montez (1821-1861) 327
George VI 1895-1952 Ruled England: 1936-1952 and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (1900-2002) 363
Prince William of Wales b. 1982 and Catherine Elizabeth Middleton (b. 1982) 407
Acknowledgments 437
Selected Bibliography 439
Author Bio 443