ROYAL BABYLON by KARL SHAW : MISTRESS MANIFESTO BOOK REVIEW

First published here at Mistress Manifesto on January 17, 2010

If you want to read about Royal Personages who had Mistresses, usually several, at once or over time, ROYAL BABYLON is a book to read. (You'll be glad we no longer live without contraception! But some mistresses today still see pregnancy as a way to be supported for life or force the issue of marriage!) And when I say that there was lots and lots of craziness, I mean lots! This book is an argument against intermarriage!

on page 68 we read...

"The British royal family, through Queen Victoria and her nine children, was related to the German Emperor, the Czar of Russian, and the kings of Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Bulgaria, and Romania; and via Edward VII's wife, Alexandra, they were linked to the royal families of Greece, Denmark, and Norway... the biggest danger comes from marrying cousins, because their children can inherit a double dose of recessive genes... The blue bloods may have lived hundreds, even thousands, of miles apart, but they were still in effect marrying the girl next door...


DID INTERBREEDING MAKE PEOPLE CRAZY OR MAYBE HYPERSEXUAL?

on page 89 we read...

"When King Augustus II of Poland lay on his deathbed in 1733, his last words were "My whole life has been an unceasing sin --- God have mercy on me!" ... (He was known for) his exceptional physical size and strength, his gluttony, his drinking prowess and his lechery, but most of all for his astonishing virility. Over a period of half a century he fathered 365 bastards, give or take a dozen. It is probably only fair to record that there was also one legitimate heir.... Augustus presided over an enormous warren of concubines. Some enjoyed official status; other he preferred to keep quiet about --- his own daughter, the Countess Orzelska, for example. One of his favor trysts was the Swedish Countess Aurora of Konigsmark; another was Fatima, a captured Turkish slave girl. Some of his more ambitious mistresses negotiated legal contracts and annual salaries for themselves; one earned herself a large palace in Dresden...

on page 90 we read...

"August the Strong's progeny went on to populate most of Europe and some of them because famous in their own right, including Maurice de Saxe and his daughter George Sand.

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HER MULTIMILLION DOLLAR FORTUNE COMES FROM BEING A MADAM

CHAPTER "GOOD FORTUNE"
SHATTERED DREAMS BROKEN PROMISES is C 2007 Michael Viner Phoenix Books

UNNAMMED WOMAN was born in Saint Petersburg, and was in her thirties when she told her story to the author.  Her parents moved the family to London, where she runs Internet sites for escorts and pays women from Eastern Europe to prostitute.

Pages 255 - 256 - 257

"I never intended to become a madam.... Today I run several of the biggest Internet prostitution schemes in London.  In a good week I might earn thirty thousand dollars, but those weeks are less frequent than they used to be, and the competition is fierce... Of course I have to pay lots of people: the webmaster, the website promoter, the girls who answer the phones, the photographer who shows off the escort's assets and Photoshops their shortcomings.  I keep apartments year round for the girls who fly in from Eastern Europe for short-term work, but even that has gotten out of hand...

The good girls do well, not perhaps not as well as you might think because of all the middle men.  For instance, if a guest at Blake's Hotel wants a girl for the night, he tells the concierge, who then puts an eighteen hundred dollars miscellaneous charge on the guest's room (converted from pounds to dollars.)  The concierge calls me, and I am paid about twelve hundred dollars.  I, in turn, pay the girl six hundred dollars, and she usually has to give half of that to her handler (the person who has brought her to London and takes care of her), at least at the beginning of her career.  The vast majority of these girls have less than a handful of years of serious earning potential before they become tired-looking and worn out from selling themselves for top dollar.

I call my favorite girls "Firemen" because they never turn down clients even with only a few minutes' notice.  "Candy" is one of my favorites.  I once forgot to tell her about an appointment and she was still ready in two minutes.  And all the clients have good things to say about her.  I know this because I give some of my steady clients a discount to give me reports on the girls.  Were they on time?  Did they do a good job?  And, most importantly did they give a private phone number?  If they did, chances are I would never use them again.  It is also important that a girl does not list herself with other agencies.  If she does, and I was the one who brought her over to London or have given her an apartment, she is through.  I will throw her out of my apartment and do what I can to blacklist her with other agencies."

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A special note from Missy.
I recently heard a radio broadcast that mentioned that some madam in England had been busted and I couldn't help but wonder if it was this woman.  Reading over this post which I wrote a couple weeks ago, I have to say that this woman sounded heartless to me.  One of the things she mentioned in her testimony was that her girls are generally worn out in a couple years, and by that she means in all ways, physically, perhaps aged beyond their years, emotionally wasted, etc.