Throughout history, scores of illegitimate royal children were determined to outdo their scandalous origins with a lifetime’s worth of shocking exploits.
Anaïs Nin kept a diary from the age of 11. Then her lover published the unexpurgated tell-all pages of her libertine lifestyle and scandalized the literary world.
When Fanny Murray got involved with her richest client yet, she thought she’d hit the jackpot. Instead, he dragged her into the twisted world of the Hellfire Club.
