The Princess and the Politicians: Sex Intrigue And Diplomacy 1812 To 1840 by John Charmley

The Princess and the Politicians: Sex Intrigue And Diplomacy 1812 To 1840

John Charmley

350 pages • first pub 2005 (editions) user-added

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As a woman Princess Dorothea Lieven, wife to the Russian ambassador in London from 1812 to 1834, was debarred from having any formal power in the world of international diplomacy. But as mistress of, among others, Metternich, Lord Grey, the Duke o...

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