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“Heartbreak is loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
“Sofka grew up in St. Petersburg as many other noble children did then, with a grim British governess, tons of toys, playdates with the hemophiliac tsarevich, and no contact with common children.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“hen Roman princess Justa Grata Honoria found herself about to be packed off to some backwater to be the docile wife of a yes-man in service to her brother, Emperor Valentinian III, she sat down to write a letter. To Attila the Hun.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“She’d always had a taste for luxury (this was the woman who had brought her servants and a bathtub to the front lines while serving as a nurse in World War I),”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“she had so often told herself the fairy tale of her own greatness that it blinded her to her faults.”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
“The duke married her anyway, but life with this millionairess didn’t prove any better than with the last one. Gladys once brought a revolver to dinner and, when asked why, remarked, “Oh, I don’t know, I might just shoot Marlborough.” Hubby had her committed,”
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
― Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
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