Behind the heaving bosoms and candlelit shenanigans of Versailles swirled rumours of murder, sorcery and poison - and the king’s favourite mistress was implicated. Madame de Montespan was prepared to go down a very dark path for love and power… scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/madame-de-mo…

Nobody, absolutely nobody: Some medieval writers: Let me tell you about ASS-CENTAURS

Happy Monday…

Hey guys, I’m now on YouTube where you can listen to me talk about my favourite scandalous history stories if you’re not into reading them on Substack youtu.be/FGj0UDyTr1A?si…

18 bottles of wine and 26 roast chickens! Henrietta, you legend.

OBSESSED with this painting of a cross-dressing Lady Caroline Lamb looking hot AF. Her boyish aesthetic defied both fashion and gender expectations of the time and she would dress as a page boy to turn on her bisexual lover, Lord Byron.

Most people have heard of the likes of Nero and Caligula but there’s one batshit crazy emperor who tends to get overlooked. He loved big d*cks, shagging Vestal Virgins, pretending to be a prostitute, and throwing deadly parties - literally scandaloushistory.substack.com/p/the-short-an…

Despite being no prize himself, George IV claimed his long suffering wife, Caroline of Brunswick, was ugly, smelly and - gasp - not a virgin. He wanted a divorce, she refused. When George was told his greatest enemy was dead after Napoleon’s death, he exclaimed “Is she, by God?”

Gonna be spending less time here going forward - for obvious reasons but also because it’s a ghost town. Most new followers are bots/(s)cam girls and my posts never get seen. Just a waste of time. Come find me on Bluesky, YouTube and Threads, where social media is still a thing!

The scandalous life of Saxon queen Eadburh involved poisonings and sex in convents. She was so naughty, the Saxons decided she’d be their last ever queen… youtu.be/tHBCxsLog64?si…

Edward VII took his sex life so seriously that he had a ‘sex chair’ specially made and installed in his favourite French brothel. It was designed so the obese royal could shag not one but two women at the same time without squishing them. Who wants to guess how it worked??

I still think about this tweet now and then ;)

I’ve moved! You can find me over on the other place from now on.