In Cupid and the King, Princess Michael of Kent vividly recounts the stories of five very different women, each of whom became a celebrated, or notorious, royal courtesan:

Diane de Poitiers, the beautiful paramour of Henri II of France, who was almost twenty years her junior;

Nell Gwyn, the bawdy, vivacious actress who rose from humble origins to become the favourite of Charles II;

Madame de Pompadour, the elegant chatelaine of Louis XV whose alleged extravagance and meddling in state affairs enraged the people of France;

Marie Walewska, the idealistic and patriotic young Polish woman who became the mistress of Napoleon in the hope of saving her country;

Lola Montez, the dazzling Irish beauty who reinvented herself as a Spanish aristocrat and won the heart of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.

• PUBLISHER: HARPER COLLINS
• PUBLISHED: 1991
• SIZE: 253MM X 178MM
• PAGES: 370
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