When Inquiring Minds Wanted to Know
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NEW YORK — What if tabloids had reigned when Cleopatra, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Napoleon and Rasputin did--and how would they have conjugated the conjugal antics of yesteryear’s society headliners?
1810: Josephine fights back after Napoleonic spokesmen announce that her marriage to Bonaparte is annulled:
36 BC: Mark Antony comes eyeball to eyeball with Cleopatra on a state visit to Egypt and . . . .
1536: Henry VIII’s tempestuous relationship with wife Anne Boleyn finally comes to a head . . . .
1588: Elizabeth I of England--was she or wasn’t she the Virgin Queen? Only the tabloids knew for sure.
1915: It ain’t only religion that Rasputin brings to the Imperial Russian Court!
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