Ashley Marchand

“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,”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“And for all he begrudged Sophia Dorothea her murky birth, George got an early start on making his own pack of illegitimate children, knocking up one of his sibling’s governesses when he was just 16 years old. His mother warned him “not to have his name bawled from the housetops as the progenitor of bastards.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings

“was the first sultan to marry a concubine in three centuries; moreover, Roxolana was the first slave concubine in the history of the Ottoman Empire to be freed and made a legal wife.”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, 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),”
― Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History Without the Fairy-Tale Endings