Mistresses

Writer Alexandre Dumas once said that Lola Montez was “fatal to any man who loves her.” Well, he couldn't have known how right he was. Historians believe that at the end of her life, Montez paid gravely for her sins of the past.

If the king thought he’d found the perfect mistress, he was SO wrong. Lucy Walter wasn’t as innocent as she looked.

Madame de Pompadour was the alluring chief mistress of King Louis XV, but few people know her dark history—or the chilling secret shared by her and Louis.

When George IV took Mary Robinson as his first royal mistress, people called it a fairy tale—but it was really a horror story.

Writer Alexandre Dumas once said that Lola Montez was “fatal to any man who loves her.” Well, he couldn't have known how right he was.

History has never been kind royal mistresses—but nobody suffered like the beautiful Hedvig Taube, the mistress of King Frederick I.