The first mistress recorded in the official history of Europe
Alice, the mistress of King Edward III of England, is the first royal mistress recorded in the official history of Europe and a typical villain.
Alice is Edward III's favorite mistress. In the last ten years of Edward's rule, she regarded the king as a tool for her own wealth, and frantically asked him for property. Edward at that time was old and stupid, and everything depended on her. She often asks Edward to buy her the same jewelry and then sell the extra set of jewelry. Through these means, she accumulated a lot of wealth and became a big landlord in Britain at that time. After Edward died, she also took Edward's royal ring.
However, her behavior also caused great hostility to her in the British Parliament. After Edward III's death, the parliament, which had endured humiliation for many years, finally took action against her: the government seized her fields in seventeen counties and confiscated a large number of jewels, including more than 20,000 pearls alone.
Second, Xiao San became an important official position in the imperial court.
/kloc-in the 6th century, with the popularization of education and the enlightenment of ideas, the status of French women was improved, and women's abilities were gradually recognized by the court, so the status of the royal mistress of the French king began to change slowly, and the negative image was improved, even becoming the object of public admiration.
In this context, French King Francois I created the title of "official royal mistress" for the first time during his reign, making the mistress of the French king a national public official and even getting a salary. During the period of King Henry II, Henry II's mistress Diane not only participated in the drafting of bills and taxes as a member of parliament, but also signed "Henry Diane" with King Henry on the official bill, which was equivalent to the prime minister at that time.
Interestingly, however, after the establishment of this title, these mistresses did not bring much bad influence to France, but the court was more orderly, while other countries, such as Spain and Bavaria, brought chaos after the establishment of the same title.
Third, the scandal of the European royal family involves the supreme position of the characters.
Russian Queen Catherine II was originally the Crown Princess of Russia, but her relationship with her husband was not harmonious. It happened that Stanislaw, a Polish aristocrat at that time, visited Russia in order to seize the Polish throne, hoping to win the support of Russia and overthrow the Polish king at that time.
However, as soon as Stanislaw arrived at the court, he forgot his own purpose and turned to crazy pursuit of Crown Princess yekaterina. Yekaterina was left out in the cold for many years, and they soon hooked up. After Catherine II took control of Russia and ascended the throne, she did not forget her old lover. She not only gave Stanislaw a lot of land and money, but also helped him ascend to the throne of Poland and become King Stanislaw II of Poland. It can be said that she is very kind to her old lover.
But Stanislaw II was not satisfied with the status quo, and wanted to turn Poland into a powerful country in Eastern Europe through reform, which touched the interests of Russia and provoked their enemies. In the end, Russia, together with Prussia and Austria, carved up Poland three times and erased it from the map. Stanislaw was placed under house arrest in St. Petersburg, the old lover's lair, and died of depression three years later.
Most marriages in European history were in happy ever after, and both men and women in the royal family were combined because of politics, which led to frequent scandals in the European royal family. However, these royal scandals have also become the talk of Europeans after dinner. Historians will also study royal scandals to understand the political environment at that time, which is also a unique contribution.