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Londoner looks at princesses who went their own way

If Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding has inspired a royal thirst, you might want to pick up Linda Rodriguez McRobbie's book, "Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories From History - Without the Fairy-Tale Endings." McRobbie, a Londoner by way of Boston, explores the backstories of famous ladies of royal lines, including Princess Margaret, whom McRobbie calls Queen Elizabeth II's "wayward sister," and Lucrezia Borgia, "a woman who managed to survive not only the pit of vipers that was Renaissance Italy, but the pit of vipers that

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