Scandal-Makers

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Hortense Mancini's life was full of drama, intrigue, and more than a little controversy. Read on for these scandalous facts about Hortense Mancini.

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Rasputin rose from a Russian peasant to one of the most powerful men in the Romanov Empire, and he did it by means that still stump historians today.

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From his illicit romances to his disastrous marriages, Philippe I broke hearts and budgets his entire life, and he did it all the way to his sudden end.

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Lucia Joyce left in a series of asylums after losing her father—but that cruel treatment was nothing compared to the indignities she suffered in death.

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It took one fatal error for Kaspar Hauser to go from sympathetic figure and victim of a shadowy captor to complete fraud.

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Maneater, mistress, "uncrowned queen": Barbara Palmer was King Charles II's favorite courtesan—until it all came crashing down.



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