Praslin, duchesse de
press, free
printing press
Protestant Church, Protestantism
Puyguilhem, marquis de
queens hardships of kings and mistresses and purpose of see also specific queens
Racine, Jean Baptiste
Raime, Mademoiselle
Ravaillac
Ray, John
Renaissance
Reresby, Sir John
Ricci, Marie-Anne de
Richard I, king of England
Richelieu, duc de
Richmond, duchess of
Richmond, duke of
Rietz, Wilhelmine see also Lichtenau, Countess
Robert the Devil
Rochester, Lord
Romans, Mademoiselle de
Romsey, Lord
Royal Marriages Act of 1772
Rudolf, Crown Prince
Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin
Saint-Simon, duc de
Santi, serving woman of Archduchess Johanna
Scarron, Françoise
Schratt, Katharina
Schulenberg, Ermengarda Melusina von
Sedley, Catherine
Serguidi, secretary of state of Tuscany
Settlement Act of 1701
Seven Years’ War
Sévigné, Madame de
Sèvres porcelain factory
Shakespeare, William
Shand, Camilla
Shand, Major
Shore, Jane
Simpson, Ernest
Simpson, Wallis Warfield
smallpox Josepha with Louis XV with Mary II with mistresses nursing monarchs with scars from Schulenberg with
Sobieski, John, king of Poland
Sophia Dorothea, queen of Prussia
Sorel, Agnes
Soubise, prince de
Soubise, princesse de
Spencer, Lady see also Diana, Princess of Wales
St. Albans, duke of
Staatliche Museum
Stainville, comte de
Stanhope, Philip Dormer
Stuart, Frances
Suffolk, duchess of see also Schulenberg Ermengarda Melusina von
Sully, duc de
taboret
Taisey-Châtenoy, marquise de
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de
Teschen, princess of
Therese, queen of Bavaria
Tournehem, Le Normant de
Trundle, Guy
Tuscany, archduchess of
Uriah the Hittite
Ursins, Jean Juvenal des
Vaillant, Marshal
Valerie, Archduchess
Valois, Marguerite de
Vatel, François
Ventimille, Madame de see also Mailly, Pauline-Félicité de
Ventimille, Monsieur de
Verneuil, marquise de see also Entragues, Henriette-Catherine de Balzac d’
Vesci, Eustace de
Vetsera, Maria
Villiers, Elizabeth
Villiers, George
Visconti, Primi
Voltaire
Wadsworth, Mary
Waldersee, Count Alfred von
Waldersee, Countess Mary von
Walewska, Maria, Countess
Walewski, Anastase, Count
Walmoden, Amelia von see also Yarmouth, Lady
Walpole, Lord Horace
War of the Austrian Succession
Warwick, Daisy, Lady
Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany
Wilhelmina of Prussia
Willem, crown prince of the Netherlands
William, Frederick, prince of England
William, Prince. See Wilhelm II, kaiser of Germany
William, Prince of Wales
William I the Conqueror, king of England
William III, king of England and Scotland
William IV, king of Great Britain see also Clarence, duke of
Windsor, duchess of see also Simpson, Wallis Warfield
Windsor, duke of see also Edward VIII, king of the United Kingdom
Wycherley, William
Yarmouth, Lady
York, duke of
Zamet
Zorreguieta, Maxima
Acknowledgments
I am inexpressibly grateful to many individuals for their encouragement and assistance.
My late mother, the artist Louise Herman Donahue, nurtured me with creativity, encouraged my curiosity, and bequeathed to me unforgettable love and laughter. She gave me the priceless gift of dreaming, a gift that forever remains with me although she does not.
My father, journalist Walter Focke Herman, proud of his medieval royal ancestors, inspired me in my earliest years to love history. Sitting at his knee I first heard the screams of battle, smelled the smoke of burning castles, saw the pageantry of royal processions. To him I am also grateful for his hawkeyed editing of the manuscript.
My sister, Christine Merrill, an artist of rare talents successfully living her dream, prodded me constantly—often to my great annoyance—to live mine. I don’t believe I would have completed this project without her stubborn but loving insistence that I do so.
Many thanks to Susanne Becerril, Karen Griswold, and Helena Hoogterp for their unceasing encouragement and support of this project and its author.
I am particularly grateful to my good friend Leslie Harris, proprietor and designer of Noblesse Oblige Renaissance costumes, for getting me into the spirit, and the corset, of a royal mistress. Wearing one of their gorgeous but restricting gowns has sharpened my understanding of their gorgeous but restricted lives.
I am astonished at the patience of my wonderful husband, Michael Dyment, who listens to my nonstop chatter of kings and queens, of mistresses and royal bastards, and tolerates my elaborate court costumes at countless events without showing a shred of embarrassment.
Clearly this book would not have been possible without the diaries, letters, dispatches, and memoirs of the past, nor indeed without the dozens of biographies and histories written by modern authors reporting and interpreting the original sources. To all writers—past and present—upon whose work I have heavily relied, and who are listed in the bibliography, I am deeply grateful.
And lastly, to make sense out of the chaotic events of the past, the historian must view them through a particular philosophical prism. For this I am immeasurably indebted to A Course in Miracles, a work of keen psychological insight and great spiritual power.
About the Author
ELEANOR HERMAN was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She studied journalism and German at Towson State University and languages in Europe. For eight years she was associate publisher for North America for NATO’s Nations and Partners for Peace magazine. She is married and lives in McLean, Virginia, where she writes history from a woman’s perspective.
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Credits
Cover design by Beth Middleworth
Cover painting: The Great Odalisque, 1814, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas, 91cm x 182cm, photograph by Erich Lessing/Art Resource, New York
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