Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty

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Since 1714, Britain has been ruled by a clan of inbred Germans with a history of mental instability and a talent for profligacy and private debauchery. But compared to their blue-blood cousins across the Channel, they are neither remarkable nor particularly mad. In the last three hundred years, Europe has been plagued by dysfunctional rulers - the insane kings of Spain, the psychopathic kings of Prussia, the sex-fixated French kings, the famously inbred Habsburgs of Austria, and of course, the drunken, debauched and always dangerous czars of Russia. This unusual and amusing account of the great and the sordid will make even the ardent royalist wonder whether Europe's republics really miss this collection of madmen, philanderers, sexual misfits, sociopaths and tragic emotional cripples. Karl Shaw lives in the UK. He has written a number of humour books including "Gross" and "The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists". He describes himself as an iconoclast.

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Karl Shaw wrote and illustrated for UK newspapers and magazines for several years before working in advertising and marketing. He now lives in Staffordshire, England, where he has channeled a misdirected education into several books includingRoyal Babylon- The Alarming History of European Royalty,5 People Who Died During Sex,Curing Hiccups with Small Fires- A Miscellany of Great British Eccentrics,and10 Ways to Recycle a Corpse.