Royal Sex

‧ Exposes the amazing story of how key English aristocratic families supplied the British royal family mistresses over several generations to secure influence at court.
‧ Author is an expert investigative genealogist specializing in the British Royal Family.
‧ Perfect follow-up to the author’s successful last book, Royal Bastards: Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family (The History Press 2008).
‧ Takes the story of ‘romping royals’ to the present day and includes Kate Middleton and Prince Harry’s lovelies!

The current Prince of Wales, our future King, has married his mistress and she will become, barring an accident, our next Queen Consort. This is a unique situation and one that is unlikely to be repeated. Of course, only 70 years ago, his great uncle was in a not dissimilar predicament, which cost him his throne.

Royal Sex shows how a certain number of key aristocratic families appear to have cornered the market in providing our monarchs with mistresses over successive centuries. The present Duchess of Cornwall is a prime example, her great-grandmother; Alice Keppel was a mistress of Edward VII, as the Duchess was of Prince Charles. The reason? To capture and exploit royal power and royal patronage to place a royal mistress or favorite at the center of power.

Roger Powell has been a professional genealogist for over 40 years. He was until his recent retirement a senior editor at Burke's Peerage and Gentry and Director of Debretts Ancestry Research. He was also a research assistant at the Royal College of Heralds. He is also related to the Duke of Monmouth, another bastard son of Charles II. He lives in Northamptonshire.