Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography
Read by: SaraHale, Anna Yates, Kate Follis, Jim Locke, BettyB, Matthieu, annabn97, Madame Lisa in English
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Preface
00:01:35 - 01 - A Princess of Prudes
00:36:49 - 02 - The Nightingale of Bath
01:04:52 - 03 - The Romance of the Villiers
01:32:53 - 04 - The Stain on the Shirley's Scutcheon
01:50:46 - 05 - A Ghostly Visitant
02:10:46 - 06 - A Messalina of the Seventeenth Century
02:32:17 - 07 - A Profligate Prince
02:48:04 - 08 - The Gorgeous Countess
03:12:03 - 09 - A Queen of Coquettes
03:37:52 - 10 - The Adventures of a Viscount's Daughter
03:53:14 - 11 - A Sixteenth-Century Elopement
04:13:49 - 12 - Tragedies of the Turf
04:40:45 - 13 - The Wicked Baron
05:00:47 - 14 - A Fair Intrigante
05:33:30 - 15 - The Merry Duchess
05:55:17 - 16 - The King and the Pretty Haymaker
06:18:49 - 17 - The Countess Who Married Her Groom
06:33:41 - 18 - A Noble Vagabond
06:54:21 - 19 - Footlights and Coronets
There are countless romances set in the British upper class, but the hearts of the real-life counterparts of the fictional heroes have also been conquered, lost, or broken. The real peerage has lived through romances and scandals as outrageous as their fictional cousins, and this book is sharing all the gossip about those adventures. - Summary by Carolin
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