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Sex with the Queen

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by Eleanor Herman


  royal travel, dangers of

  Saint-Simon, duc de

  Saltikov, Sergei

  Sarah, duchess of York

  Savonarola

  Schulenburg, Melusina von

  Settelen, Peter

  Seven Years’ War

  Seymour brothers

  Shuvalov, Ivan

  Simanovich, Aron

  Simpson, Wallis Warfield

  Skavronskaya, Martha; see also Catherine I

  Skourin, Vasily

  Smeaton, Mark

  Smith, Sir Sidney

  Sophia, duchess of Hanover

  Sophia, Princess

  Sophia Dorothea, princess of Hanover

  in Ahlden prison

  arrest of

  death and burial of

  divorce of

  and George Louis

  and Königsmark

  letters of

  Sophia Dorothea, queen of Prussia

  Sophia Magdalena, Princess

  Sophie, empress of Russia

  Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, Princess; see also Catherine the Great

  Soubise, princesse de

  Spencer, Charles, Earl

  Spiridovich, Alexander

  Stanislaus, king of Poland

  Stirbey, Barbo

  Struensee, Johann von

  Sully, duc de

  Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de

  Therese, queen of Bavaria

  ThroneOut

  Tilly, Alexandre de

  Toselli, Enrico

  Tudo, Josephina

  Twain, Mark

  Urraca, queen of Castile and Leon

  Vasilchikov, Alexander

  Vermont, lover of Margot de Valois

  Victoire, duchess of Kent

  Victoria, queen of England:

  and Albert

  descendants of

  and her mother

  and Mr. Brown

  Villiers, George

  Virgin Mary

  Voltaire

  Vorontsova, Elizabeth

  Washington, George

  Waterhouse, David

  Weston, Sir Francis

  Whalley, Christopher

  Wilhelm, kaiser of Germany

  Wilhelmina, Princess

  William of Tyre

  Wolfenbüttel, Duke Anton Ulrich von (father)

  Wolfenbüttel, duke of (son)

  Wraxall, Nathaniel

  Yermalov, Alexis

  Yoritz, Peter

  Yusupov, Prince Felix

  Yusupov, Princess Irina

  Zavadovsky, Peter

  Zubov, Plato

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Putting a first book out there for the world to read is like standing on a podium naked and asking people to judge you, body and soul. This is because each book is a clear reflection of its author, her personality, her thoughts and experiences, her way of looking at the world. Judgment, therefore, will not only be about her writing, but about… her soul!

  It is extremely frightening to take that step up to the podium, utterly exposed; the least bit of jiggle, cellulite, or sagging clearly visible to potentially cruel judges.

  It is also an exhilarating experience when the judges agree the results are pretty good, and any minor jiggle can be forgiven. To a first-time author, this means not only that she did the right thing giving up her day job to write books, but also removes any lingering doubt in her mind as to whether she is a good human being worthy of inhaling air on this planet.

  To all those who supported me in the roller-coaster ride of bringing out Sex with Kings while simultaneously working on Sex with the Queen, I thank you most heartily. On the personal side, this is my amazingly patient husband, Michael Dyment; my encouraging sister, Christine Merrill; and my supportive father, Walter Herman. I would also like to thank my friends Kitty Jensen and Steve Ledebur, who attended so many Sex with Kings book events with an entourage dressed in full Renaissance costume. The ladies-in-waiting on my European book tour—my friends Leslie Harris of Noblesse Oblige costumes, and Lorraine Nordlinger— deserve special gratitude for wearing those tight corsets.

  On the professional side I have been extremely fortunate to work with amazing women on both sides of the Atlantic. My editors Angelika Schwartz and Karin Herber-Schlapp at Fischer Verlag in Frankfurt, Germany, and my agent Barbara Perlmutter in New York, have been an absolute delight.

  The ongoing laughter I have shared with my contacts at William Morrow has never reduced the high level of professionalism of our work. Many thanks are due to my editor Lucia Macro; her assistant, Kelly Harms; and my thick-skinned, hardworking publicists, Dee Dee Di Bartolo and Shannon Valcich.

  About the Author

  Named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, her grandmother twenty-eight times removed, ELEANOR HERMAN is related to most of the royal families of Europe. An accomplished lecturer and TV and radio commentator on royal issues, Herman lives in McLean, Virginia.

  www.eleanorherman.com • www.sexwiththequeen.com

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  ALSO BY ELEANOR HERMAN

  Sex with Kings

  Credits

  Cover design by Beth Middleworth

  Copyright

  SEX WITH THE QUEEN. Copyright © 2006 by Eleanor Herman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of thistext may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by anymeans, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  ePub edition March 2006 ISBN 9780061751561

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

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