LADIES OF THE BEDCHAMBER：THE ROLE OF THE ROYAL MISTRESS

Book ID/图书代码： 10725004B00048

English Summary/英文概要： Democratically elected representatives of the people, as well as constitutional monarchs who are powerless to effect political change, are nonetheless expected to manage the moral affairs of the country with the same degree of concern as parents are expected to shape the morality of their children. But where the power of leadership becomes confused with the power of sex, the moral victims of rumour, hearsay and the tabloids come a poor second. Sex addiction threads its way through the 600 years of the British monarchy to the present day via the multiple heterosexual infidelities of Henry VIII and the homosexual infidelities of James I, to George I, the first of the Hanoverians, who insisted that his mistress always be fat, and James II who liked his mistresses to be thin and fell in love with Arabella, daughter the then Sir Winston Churchill. Co-incidentally, George II planned (unsuccessfully) to marry a ’Lady Diana Spencer’. And so on, and so on. Ladies of the Bedchamber examines the role played by the mistress, the concubine and finally commercial sex, the ready availability of which possibly protected the virginal sanctity of marriage in the years predceeding today’s less holy alliances. Ladies of the Bedchamber shows how sex addiction cast its shadow over the 20th century from the accession of King Edward VII in 1901 to his, and Mrs Alice Keppel’s great, great-grandchildren, Charles Prince of Wales and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles in 2001. Attention is focused on understanding the psychological imperatives of the sexual indiscretions of, among others: King Edward VII, Sarah Bernhardt, Lily Langtry, Mrs Alice Keppel King George V’s older brother, the bisexual Duke of Clarence and his youngest son, Prince George, Duke of Kent (his homosexual affair with Noel Coward) King Edward VIII and his relationships with Lady Sybil Cadogan, Lady Marian Coke, Mrs Frieda Dudley Ward, Thelma, Lady Furness, Adolf Hitler and Mrs Wallace Simpson Prince Philip and Merle Oberon, Princess Alexandra and Daphne du Maurier Prince Andrew and Koo Stark, Finola Hughes, Caroline Herbert and others Diana Princess of Wales and Oliver Hoare, Will Carling, Christopher Whalley, John Hewitt and others Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “英国皇家卧室中的女士”是指与英国统治者或他们的继承人同枕共寝的人，所以不一定都是女性。这些人在某些程度上都影响了历史，从他们身上也反映了当时对契约婚姻的看法。从都铎王朝以来的500年中，性的不忠实一直贯穿英国皇家的历史。作者回顾了英国皇室中正式妻子，情妇和商业性性交易所起的作用，特别是20世纪中几件与皇家婚姻有关的事情。

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About the Author/作者介绍： Dannis Friedman是个心理治疗师，研究恐惧，性问题和其他一些心理疾病。他写过“遗传特性：皇室家庭的心理历史”和“亲爱的乔治：乔治五世之谜”，并常在关于英国皇室的电视纪录片上露面。 Dennis Friedman is a psychiatrist and author of innovative studies of phobias, sexual problems and other psychological disorders. Formerly of St Bartholemew’s Hospital, London, he is now Medical Director of the Charter Clinic, London. He is now a well known commentator on the royal family and is the author of Inheritance: A Psychological History of the Royal Family (Sidgwick & Jackson). His previous work, Darling Georgie: The Enigma of King George V, was published by Peter Owen and is also available on amazon.

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