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heykylie's review against another edition
2.0
I read this book in just a couple hours - the format is such that it has large text and each page is punctuated with pictures, so it goes really fast...luckily. I was so disappointed in the quality of this book. Each chapter focuses on a different royal couple and I think I could have learned more by just reading the wikipedia entry for each character. I was expecting an in-depth look at some royal couples and instead was given a 200-page tabloid history book.
javafenn's review against another edition
5.0
This was an excellent book about love in royalty rather than the tragedy that usually happens.
betsy1835's review against another edition
3.0
A quick and easy read. Some were a stretch to call them “love” stories, but historically, royal marriages have not had much love in them. There wasn’t as much of a critical gaze as I would have liked at times, but it was still an interesting introduction to some history I didn’t know.
aliterarylion's review against another edition
5.0
Whenever I'm not enjoying a book I brought to the call center, I hit up my Hoopla account for any digital books to read instead. This was one of my choices I found after my recent Royal Family obsession. This was a wonderful non-fiction to breeze through love stories in royal European households. Most of these couples were not married to the object of their affection and the mistress rather than the wife had the king wrapped around her finger. I know royals married more secure connections rather than love but it just made my empathetic heart a little sad to imagine how the queen felt. Anyway, this was a fascinating read featuring Catherine the Great, the Romanovs, and the women who inspired the Taj Mahal. My favorite story was Prince Bertil of Sweden and Lillian Craig who were not allowed to marry because she was a commoner and "morgantic" marriages were not looked upon kindly in royal circles. These two had to wait 30 years for the succession to pass them and someone else could be king. Bertil and Lillian got married in their 60's and it was the sweetest story. It made me very happy and I am pleased to have learned about so many great royal European romances in history.
jodie_saint's review against another edition
3.0
This book provided selected historical overviews or royal romances. It was good, overall. It included a good variety of stories from around the world- some I knew well, some I didn't. I appreciate that the book left out some of the famous romances that we've heard of over and over again (such as Charles and Diana).
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