Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
by Waldherr, Kris
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- Very good. Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr SOFTCOVER Deckle Edge, CO
- ISBN 10
- 0767928997
- ISBN 13
- 9780767928991
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New York, NY: Three Rivers Press (CA), 2008. Trade paperback. Very good. Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr SOFTCOVER Deckle Edge, COPYRIGHT 2008-CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS-176 PAGES by Kris Waldherr (Author)----Illicit love, madness,... Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr SOFTCOVER Deckle Edge, COPYRIGHT 2008-CONDITION VERY GOOD-PUBLISHED BY BROADWAY BOOKS-176 PAGES by Kris Waldherr (Author)----Illicit love, madness, betrayal--it isn't always good to be the queen Marie Antoinette, Anne Boleyn, and Mary, Queen of Scots. What did they have in common? For a while they were crowned in gold, cosseted in silk, and flattered by courtiers. But in the end, they spent long nights in dark prison towers and were marched to the scaffold where they surrendered their heads to the executioner. And they are hardly alone in their undignified demises. Throughout history, royal women have had a distressing way of meeting bad ends--dying of starvation, being burned at the stake, or expiring in childbirth while trying desperately to produce an heir. They always had to be on their toes and all too often even devious plotting, miraculous pregnancies, and selling out their sisters was not enough to keep them from forcible consignment to religious orders. From Cleopatra (suicide by asp), to Princess Caroline (suspiciously poisoned on her coronation day), there's a gory downside to being blue-blooded w
Synopsis
Kris Waldherr is an author, illustrator, and designer whose art has been exhibited in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She is the author of The Lover’s Path and The Book of Goddesses , and creator of The Goddess Tarot . She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- Title
- Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di
- Author
- Waldherr, Kris
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di by Kris Waldherr SOFTCOVER Deckle Edge, CO
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0767928997
- ISBN 13
- 9780767928991
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press (CA)
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2008
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