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1. Who was the English King who had ONE Jane, TWO Annes and THREE Catherines as wives?
2. Whom did Queen Elizabeth I refer to when she said: 'I put up with much disrespect (from him) but I warned him that he should not touch my sceptre.'?
3. Which of these husbands or (supposed) lovers of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots died the first ?
4. Which English King had 'favourites' such as Robert Carr, the Earl of {Somerset;George} Villiers, the Duke of {Buckingham;Lord} Henry Howard , the Earl of Northampton and Esme Stuart,Lord Aubigny?
5. Who was married to Catherine of Braganza, had 14 illegitimate children and shared one of his mistresses with Louis XIV, the Sun-King?
6. Which of these was the 'official' wife of Louis XIV ?
7. Which of these women was Louis XV supposed to be faithful to as she was his only legitimate wife?
8. Madame du Barry might certainly be seen as a French version of the American dream , in making a career from a very humble position in society to becoming the King's very own darling.What had been her original profession?
9. Louis XV first met Mme de Pompadour at a Masked Ball. As what was the King disguised?
10. Which English King did NOT invite his legitimate wife to his own Coronation because he was involved in trying to get her divorced, on grounds of generalised misbehaviour, throwing wild parties in her own palace at Blackheath, pretending she had an illegitimate child, touring the courts of Europe in search of lovers and in short an extreme form of nymphomania ?
11. Sarah Bernhardt, the Parisian actress, counted various Royals among her 'close friends'. Which of them did she even persuade to play the part of a corpse in her play 'Fedora' ?
12. Which of the Hanoverian Kings was nicknamed the 'First Gentleman of Europe', was given to drinking and gambling, was an intimate of Beau Brummel, spent large sums of money on rebuilding certain parts of London and on an Eastern style Royal Pavilion in Brightonand had a Mrs Fitzherbert as favourite girl-friend?
13. Who was the famous red-haired woman born in 1853 on the island of Jersey that helped Edward VII entertain himself while he had to wait to become King till his mother Queen Victoria finally left him the throne when he was 60 already?
14. Not a King, but first a President of France and later the Emperor of France was Napoleon the Third.Very bad at foreign affairs, moderate at home affairs he was excellent at affairs of the heart.Among the very long list of women that were very dear to him, there was one Lady Blessington who also had been the beloved of a famous (or is it infamous?) English author.Who was that author?
15. The power of women over men being what it is, it can hardly be a surprise that some Royals even completely quite a bit of their dignity over some of their sweethearts. One such case was the King of Bavaria, Ludwig I, who lost his heart to Lola Montez, an Irish-born femme fatale. He was not the only one to have enjoyed her favours however.Many artists and writers had. Who in this list of four is an exception?
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