Starting with the gluttonous Messalina, the wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, whom she wanted to overthrow and murder, to the two most famous - Marie-Antoinette, the wife of Louis XVI executed by the French revolutionaries, and Josephine, the rejected wife of Napoleon, the author wrote portraits of queens whose fate higher political interests have always clashed with private feelings and the desire for love. They were loved and hated, intrigued and became victims of intrigue, more than once they ended up in prison or on the gallows. Juliette Benzoni, an experienced author of dozens of mostly historical novels, does not write - despite the title of this book - just bedroom stories, but places her portraits in historical contexts, in the conditions of the royal courts and does not avoid the politics of the time, the enemy of all loves.