{"product_id":"mad-kings-queens-9781435138865","title":"Mad Kings \u0026 Queens","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis frank and fascinating book ransacks the remarkable history of forty of Europes most dumb, deluded, and downright dangerous monarchs, to reveal a legion of kings and queens who have sat upon the pedestal of power and abused it in spectacular style. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe respectability of the royal position is well and truly tossed aside by the whimsy and the wanton depravity of generations of mad European monarchs, including:\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe queen who murdered her husband with a red-hot spit.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe bloodthirsty monarch who impaled tens of thousands of his subjects.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe vampiric ruler who bathed in the blood of young women. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe king of excess who beheaded his wives. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMad Kings and Queens\u003c\/i\u003e is a spectacular celebration of seven hundred years of royal eccentricity, detailing a catalogue of madness and exploring the finer intricacies of royal breeding that lay at its root. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"BookAnnex","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67901186703538,"sku":"9781435138865","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/9781435138865.jpg?v=1793909130","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/mad-kings-queens-9781435138865","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}