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Weddings were joyous occasions, sure, but they were also low-key funerals, because after saying their vows people tended to disappear.
“t could have been a storybook romance, if the authors were the brothers Grimm, or maybe Stephen King.”
― 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
“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.”
― 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
“On November 12, 1312, the 17-year-old queen gave birth to a healthy baby boy. She’d done her duty to crown and husband, and her position was secure. She had also accumulated enough political acumen to manage her useless husband and try to keep the nation from civil war. Edward”
― 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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