Skandal bei Hof

When Love Still Cost Life - the dramatic family saga of five princesses from the House of Windsor. Mad husbands, lifelong house arrest, the cruelest physical and emotional torment, isolation in an intrigant court: this was the everyday life for many noblewomen in the 17th and 18th centuries. With a keen psychological insight, Thea Leitner narrates, among others, these scandalous chronicles of Sophie Dorothea, the wife of English King George I; Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte of the Palatinate), the German princess at the court of the Sun King Louis XIV; and Wilhelmine, the favorite sister of Frederick the Great. Against the backdrop of European politics, these harrowing tragedies reveal a societal portrait that makes the scandals of today's crowned heads seem like harmless tales.