New Giveaway: Notorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll


As part of the Historical Fiction Round Table event we have going on this week, I've got 1 copy of Leslie Carroll's Notorious Royal Marriages to give to one lucky winner!!!

Giveaway is open to US residents ONLY and ends on January 22nd.

To enter please leave a comment with your email.  That's it!  Easy peasy! 

SYNOPSIS:  A funny, raucous, and delightfully dirty 900-year history of the royal marriages of Europe's most famous-and infamous-monarchs.

Since time immemorial, royal marriages have had little to do with love- and almost everything to do with diplomacy and dynasty. Clashing personalities have joined in unholy matrimony to form such infamous couples as Russia's Peter II and Catherine the Great, and France's Henri II and Catherine de Medici-all with the purpose of begetting a male heir. But with tensions high and silverware flying, kings like England's Henry II have fled to the beds of their nubile mistresses, while queens such as Eleanor of Aquitaine have plotted their revenge...

Full of the juicy gossip and bad behavior that characterized Royal Affairs, this book chronicles the love-hate marriages of the crowned heads of Europe-from the Angevins to Charles and Di-and ponders how dynasties ever survived at all.

GOOD LUCK ALL!!!









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95 comments:

  1. Oh me! Me! Pick me! Was so disappointed when I went to buy this yesterday and the bookstore didn't have it!

    robinbird_79 AT hotmail DOT com

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  2. I read Royal Affairs over the holiday break and loved it! I'm looking forward to reading Leslie's latest work!

    Thank you for the entry!

    Wendy
    wendysfictionaddiction(at)gmail(dot)com

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  3. This book sounds like it will make for delightful reading. Thank you for the chance.

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  4. Oooo enter me!

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  5. Sounds wonderful!

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  6. Ooh, this is one book giveaway I can't pass up!

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  7. Sounds like a fun read. I'd be happy to win a copy

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  8. Sounds like a fun book. Count me in!

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  9. amy!!! i have been looking for an interesting book to get me back into historical reading. this could be it!!! pick me, pick me!!!!!!
    dr. o ;)

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  10. Oh, this one sounds delicious! Please please!

    teabird 17 AT yahoo dot com

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  11. I would like a good historical book and this one sounds like the one!!

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  12. This looks great. Count me in.

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  13. This book looks like a lot of fun. Please enter me!

    Thanks, Amy and Leslie, for the chance.

    ~ Lori
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  14. Oh how I love easy peasy entries:-)

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  15. Oh, I so would love to win this one! Thanks for the contest.

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  16. I'd love to be able to read this. Sounds great! jacksond@nhr3.net

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  17. Happy New Year!

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  18. I would love to read this one! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  19. I would love to be entered!

    akreese (at) hotmail (dot) com

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  20. The book sounds nice and juicy, just up my alley :o) I'd love to win!!

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  21. Now this is a book Iwould love to read!
    Thanks for another great opportunity! Marie
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  22. thanks for offering so many giveaways!

    mclean416(at)gmail(dot)com

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  23. This sounds wonderful!! Please enter my name in the giveaway, thanks!

    meah56 at gmail dot com

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  24. I enjoyed the author's guest post about Catherine and Henri and Diane. It's really whetted by appetite for this book. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  25. Please include me too!!!

    Thanks AMy!!

    momkelly2003@Yahoo.com

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  26. This is sooo nice, I hope to win this giveaway! Thanks Amy and Leslie!

    nunezbella(at)hotmail(dot)com

    ~Bella

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  27. Shame on me - I love royal gossip!
    annarudow at gmail dot com

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  28. this looks fascinating thanks minsthins at optonline dot net

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  29. Oh hooray!
    Please enter me.
    thank you
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  30. Fantastic!! This is going to be a great read. I love reading about all the history.

    Please enter me!!

    Judy (magnolias_1@msn.com)

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  31. Thanks - what a fun giveaway.
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  32. justpeachy36@yahoo.com

    Please enter me in the giveaway.

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  33. This book looks fabulous and I've read great things! Count me in!

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  34. Cool!

    Pam
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  35. Wow! Would love to win this one!

    Happy 2010!

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  36. This sounds like a great book, I am definitely adding it to my TBR list!

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  37. Dying to read this! Please enter me!

    Oregon Kimm
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  38. This sounds like so much fun! Count me in. utgal2004[at]yahoo[dot]com

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  39. I am dying to read this! The more I hear about it, the more excited I get!

    Thanks for the giveaway =O)

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  40. This book looks like fun.

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  41. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE----Did I say love-----to win this book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  42. Ooh, royal gossip/trash book...love it!

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  43. A little royalty to entertain me! :) I'd love to read who made the cut!
    Theresa n
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  44. Please enter me!

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  45. I would love to win this book!
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  46. I would loove a copy.. still haven't ventured to non-fiction yet, but this one looks like a fun start!

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  47. I'm very interested in this subject. I'd pass the book to my daughter after I read it.
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  48. I've been wanting to read this, so I'd love to win it!

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  49. I love these kinds of non-fiction books. You can read a little and put it down and pick it up a couple of days later. Pick me, please!!

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  50. This sounds like a fun read. I would love to be entered.
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  51. Incase you hadn't noticed, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this royal book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

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  52. This sounds delightful. Thank you for the giveaway.

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  53. i looooove this kind of stuff. count me in!
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  54. 3_Scorpios@rock.com

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  55. c.kerr-hiatt@mail.com

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  56. Please enter me too! :)

    muse_in_the_fog@hotmail.com

    Thanks!

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  57. I would love to win this one.

    tekeygirl at gmail dot com

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  58. I have read all of the Dark Queen series and LOVED it! I would love to read some of Leslie Carroll's non-fiction!

    emily DOT wittenberg @ gmail.com

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  59. Thanks for the giveaway!!


    Rachelhwallen@gmail.com

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  60. I would love to be entered!!
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  61. I just ordered ROYAL AFFAIRS and can't wait to get it. This will be on my To Buy List.
    Why shouldn't history be fun?

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  62. This sounds like an amazing book!

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  63. I'd love to win this! Pick me! Pick me!

    Maxine
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  64. this sounds like such a fun read-hope I win

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  65. Please enter me.

    jasmyn9[at]hotmail[dot]com

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  66. Ooh that would be so fun!
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  67. Please include me in your giveaway

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  68. My copy of ROYAL AFFAIRS arrived yesterday and I can't wait to start it. NOTORIOUS ROYAL MARRIAGES is next on my list. I hear she is writing a book on the royal children. That should be interesting.
    Leslie, good luck with the release.

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  69. Sounds like an interesting read! olgabjones[at]yahoo.com

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  70. I would love to read this book!!

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  71. Sounds like a great book. Thanks for the giveaway.
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  72. OO!!! This sounds awesome!!!! I love this author!

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  73. Sounds really good! I'd love to enter!

    Tammy

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  74. This looks like a really fun read!

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  75. I would be so happy to win this!
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  76. This book sounds like it's right up my alley - plus, it will be perfect for two of my reading challenges this year!

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  77. I thoroughly enjoyed Royal Affairs. I would love to own this next book by Leslie Carroll. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.

    tmrtini at gmail dot com

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  78. oh how simply delicious :}
    would so love to take this on a weekend getaway with my DH...lol
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  79. Pick meeee!! I love history, romance novels, and the history of the institution of marriage; I am currently studying patriarchal and matriarchal societies and the shifts in views of women over time in powerful/royal families and this book would be a great resource and of interest to me. Thanks and happy reading everyone!!
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  80. Thanks for the giveaway. Looks so good!!

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  81. Please please please please please pick me please.

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  82. Madison Phillips-NagyJanuary 14, 2010 at 1:48 PM

    Please pick me. sidhe73@yahoo.com

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  83. Enter me please
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    ChĆØli
    Cheli's Shelves

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  84. I love to read historial fiction.

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  85. I love these types of books. history with a good dose of laughs!

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  86. Now this is a book I'd love to read. Thanks for the possibility.

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  87. Yes, I would love to win a copy!
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  88. Please count me in!

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  89. Just found your blog and had to subscribe! It's a great blog!

    Please enter me!

    Thanks!

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  90. I look forward to adding this to my classroom library.
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  91. What a fun book! Thanks for sharing!
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  92. This sounds really neat! I'd love to be entered.

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  93. This looks really interesting - please count me in!
    Thanks ~ megalon22 at yahoo dot com

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  94. Please enter me!

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