Sex, Scandal, & Crowns/ Becoming Jackie/ Between The Pages

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Hey my loves. It's me, Jackie Delain, and welcome to Becoming Jackie. This is my series called Between the Pages. I have another book to recommend or review.

[00:00:15]Um I don't really review them. Um I don't go into big depth about them um because I want you to just go and read them yourselves.

[00:00:25]Um some of the books that I recommend I haven't really read them yet, but [laughter] uh they're books that I have on my shelf and I would love for you to read them. I can show you some of my books.

[00:00:45]There's some of them.

[00:00:48]I have a couple bookshelves.

[00:00:51]Let's get you back to where you were.

[00:00:54]All right.

[00:00:55]So today, I think on my last episode, I told you about a book and if it wasn't my last episode, it was the one before. I told you about a book that I absolutely love. It's called Sex with Kings and um this book I have read so many times I don't remember. Um the first time I ever read it was back in the early 2000s. I read it again in 2005 and then I read it again in 2007. The reason why I know that the years is because um I had surgery in 2005 and I read it during that time and then 2007, I had a certain boyfriend and I read it when I was with him and then um I read it again. Oh, upside down.

[00:01:41]Hello.

[00:01:43]Um who wears their crown upside down?

[00:01:47]Who knows? Sometimes people might do that. Pineapples go upside down.

[00:01:53]You know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then Google it. If you see an upside down pineapple at someone's house, there might be some fun going on in there. You might want to check it out, or you might not. I don't know.

[00:02:08]Um but anyways, >> [music] >> um So, enough about how many times I read this stupid book, or I mean the good book. It's a good book. Uh they also have Sex with Queens. I have that book as well.

[00:02:19]Um I didn't finish that book though. It wasn't as In my opinion, it wasn't as interesting as Sex with Kings. Uh as you guys know, I am very interested in mistresses, and uh I just love stories about mistresses. I really, really connect with them because of my story, uh being a dancer, and um other things that I'll be getting into.

[00:02:46]So, Sex with Kings, um it's 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, rivalry.

[00:02:55]Sometimes I can't say words, and you'll see that. I'll >> [music] >> I'll say them out in front of you. Don't make fun. Just go with it. Rivalry and revenge. "Sexy, dishy, and funny," >> [music] >> says The New York Times. It's by Eleanor Herman. She Eleanor Herman has written so many books, and I have Googled her and bought many books from her. Uh she is the bomb. So, you can Google her her.

[00:03:21]Um it says PS, insights, interviews, and more.

[00:03:25]So, I do want to read the back.

[00:03:28]Um In Entertainment Weekly says, "Addictively good dish."

[00:03:33]It is addictive.

[00:03:35]That's why I read it so many times, is because [music] um it has Madame de Pompadour in it. I have a couple books on her.

[00:03:43]Uh Oh my gosh. If you ever heard of what a pompadour is, a hairstyle, it came from her.

[00:03:51]So, uh there's also pictures in here so you can like put faces with names.

[00:03:58]Some beautiful artwork. I have gorgeous artwork in my home. I collect nudes. So, anything nudes that's actually Madame de Pompadour.

[00:04:09]Oops.

[00:04:11]I'm going to read the back for you.

[00:04:14]She was a royal mistress. She was ready to converse daily with the king when she was tired, make love until all hours when she was ill, and cater to his every whim.

[00:04:26]She was never to be exhausted, complaining, or grief-stricken.

[00:04:30]Hundreds would vie to unseat her or push her toward a tragic end, but she often had the last laugh, living well and richly off the fruits of her sins.

[00:04:42]Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and the bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs and the women who loved them.

[00:04:52]From Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV, who kept her position for 19 years, despite her frigidity, to modern-day Camilla Parker Bowles, who usurped the beloved and glamorous Diana, Princess of Wales.

[00:05:13]Based on impeccable impeccable research from diaries, personal letters, and diplomatic dispatches, and alive with flamboyant characters, outrageous humor, and stirring poignancy, Sex with Kings will please readers who like their history liberally spiced with glamour and gossip.

[00:05:36]Ooh, baby.

[00:05:38]>> [sighs] >> Getting me going.

[00:05:41]You got to see this picture.

[00:05:44]BABY, WHAT?

[00:05:46]OOH, WEE.

[00:05:49]TALK ABOUT SOME NUTTY stuff up in there.

[00:05:53]Oh, wait. Starting to get me a little something.

[00:05:57]Yes, there's a bruise.

[00:06:00]It came from a door.

[00:06:03]Oh my god, it's a cabinet door.

[00:06:07]Doesn't that sound ridiculous? I could have a big punch in my forehead and I say I ran into a door.

[00:06:13]And somebody's going to be like, "Yeah, right."

[00:06:16]I promise.

[00:06:17]K.

[00:06:19]Well, the reason why I said something cuz it looks like a nipple and it's not a nipple. Oh, yeah, is this shirt cute?

[00:06:25]I like to like match books that I'm doing.

[00:06:29]And then also, aren't these earrings cute?

[00:06:32]I got them off Etsy years ago.

[00:06:36]But anyways, um Sex with Kings, check it out.

[00:06:44]If you don't, you don't.

[00:06:47]I love you guys so much. I hope that you have a wonderful rest of your day or evening and um I will see you guys next time.

[00:06:58]Bye.