Sex With Kings: 500 Years Of Adultery, Power, R... !FULL!
Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant characters, outrageous humor, and stirring poignancy, this glittering tale of passion and politics chronicles five hundred years of scintillating women and the kings who loved them.
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, R...
Curiously, the main function of a royal mistress was not to provide the king with sex but with companionship. Forced to marry repulsive foreign princesses, kings sought solace with women of their own choice. And what women they were! From Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV, who kept her position for nineteen years despite her frigidity, to modern-day Camilla Parker-Bowles, who usurped none other than the glamorous Diana, Princess of Wales.
From the dawn of time, power has been a mighty aphrodisiac. With diaries, personal letters, and diplomatic dispatches, Eleanor Herman's trailblazing research reveals the dynamics of sex and power, rivalry and revenge, at the most brilliant courts of Europe. Wickedly witty and endlessly entertaining, Sex with Kings is a chapter of women's history that has remained unwritten -- until now.
Upon returning to France, a twelve-year-old Henry, morose and unable to speak fluent French, was assigned a thirty-year-old female mentor. At first a very maternal relationship, five years later beautiful Diane de Poitiers, with porcelain-like skin and soon to be widowed, would become his lifelong mistress.
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Terribly infuriated and feeling betrayed, she carried her spite so far as to be deeply compromised in a conspiracy against the king in 1608, but escaped with only a slight punishment after the plot was foiled,[3] and in 1608 Henry actually took her back into favour again as one of his mistresses.[4] She was later involved in the Spanish intrigues which preceded the death of the King in 1610. Upon the King's death, his wife, Queen Marie de' Medici, was named Regent by Parliament, and immediately exiled Catherine from the royal court. She lived 23 years after Henri's death, until 1633. She died at the age of 55, alone and unmourned.[5]
David plunged himself into this crime after he forgot that God gave him his position of power, and that God cared about what he did with it. Shepherds were meant to care for, not eat, the sheep in their herd (Ezekiel 34). Jesus, the good shepherd, used his power to feed, serve, heal, and bless people under his authority, and he commanded his followers to do the same (Mark 9:35; 10:42-45).
He perhaps saw Elizabeth as a means of acquiring power, but in January 1549 he was arrested for conspiring to kidnap the King, and his lecherous behaviour with Elizabeth was unmasked. Seymour was beheaded for treason two months after his arrest.
6. Forty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council and in the year of the Eucharist, this Compendium represents an additional resource for satisfying the hunger for truth among the Christian faithful of all ages and conditions, as well as the hunger for truth and justice among those who are without faith. The publication of the Compendium will take place on the solemnity of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, pillars of the Church universal and exemplary evangelizers of the ancient world. These apostles saw what they preached and witnessed to the truth of Christ even unto martyrdom. Let us imitate them in their missionary zeal and pray to the Lord that the Church may always follow the teaching of the apostles, from whom she first received the glorious proclamation of the faith.
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As long as an excommunicated member is willing to make the necessary changes to their behavior, yes, they may be welcomed back into the church, often with full fellowship. A man who I was once acquainted with had been excommunicated, but looked forward to the day when he could return to the church. I lost contact with him years ago, but it is my hope that he was able to satisfy this desire.
You are right,there are many very recent programs, still, such as September Dawn, filled with factual errors, made in order to make Mormons sound bad, meaning it was filmed for bigoted purposes. Another program recently that I saw about polygamy on TV was about a group which had nothing to do with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but the program threw in an unfounded statement,, long since refuted, about the founder of the LDS Church as the sole reference to the LDS Church in the whole program, saying that Joseph Smith was an adulterer who started a Church in 1830. The more you learn, the more impossible this statement turns out to be. There have been a couple of children who have had written evidence, and even whose DNA, has been traced back to other fathers than Joseph Smith in years since, that were attributed to Joseph Smith Jr. just to slam him a in the100+ years after his death.
This was an adulterous affair that involved the three daughters-in-law of the French King Philip IV. In 1314 his daughter, Isabella (who was married to Edward II of England) informed her father that the purses she gave her sisters-in-law were now in the hands of two Norman knights, and the king started an investigation. It was believed that the knights and the princesses were carrying out the illicit affairs inside a tower in Paris known as Tour de Nesle. Eventually Philip had two knights seized and tortured until they confessed. They would be castrated before being either drawn-and-quartered or broken over wheel, and then hanged. Meanwhile, the three daughters-in-law were put on trial, with two of them being found guilty. Their heads were shaved and both sentenced to life-long imprisonment. One died the following year under mysterious circumstances, probably being murdered, while the other princess was kept eight years in an underground prison before she was released and became a nun. Having suffered from poor health because of the imprisonment, she died a few years later.
In 1193, the French king Philip II Augustus married the Danish princess Ingeborg. The day after their marriage Philip repudiated his wife and demanded the marriage be annulled. The reasons why he decided to do this are a mystery, and rumours spread that the King could not consummate the marriage. Ingeborg was sent away from the French court, and for the next 20 years was kept as a virtual prisoner in castles around the country. News of the scandal spread throughout Europe, and the Pope even excommunicated Philip to force him to reconcile with his wife. It would not be until 1213 that the French King agreed to release Ingeborg and treat her as his queen, which he did only for political reasons.
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