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    Desert Queen: Scandalous Women, #1
    Desert Queen: Scandalous Women, #1
    Desert Queen: Scandalous Women, #1
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    Desert Queen: Scandalous Women, #1

    By Anna Myers

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    DESERT QUEEN

        In this wonderful short book author, Anna Myers looks at the colorful life of the extraordinary bohemian adventuress Lady Hester Stanhope.

        Lady Hester lived in England until the age of about 33 when she set off traveling and fell in love with the Middle East. While en route to Egypt she was shipwrecked, and lost all her clothes. Unable to purchase European clothes she adopted a male version of Turkish dress. This, made her a bit of a 'cause celeb' in the Middle East, and also that she rode horseback into Damascus without a veil, an unthinkable thing to do at the time. In fact, many of the things Lady Hester did were unthinkable at the time, which is what made her such a colorful character.

        Many of the travels she undertook were exceedingly dangerous, but she appeared fearless. She was the first European woman - and one of the few Europeans to survive the dangerous journey - to enter Palmyra, in the middle of the  Syrian desert. The native Bedouins crowned her as "Queen of the Desert". Hester chose to settle down in Lebanon, where she became a local folk hero, offering shelter to those affected by wars and the battles for supremacy in the region.

        When the British Government under Lord Palmerston stopped her pension, she died in her home in Djoun, destitute, friendless and alone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGoldmineguides.com
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781497751958
    Desert Queen: Scandalous Women, #1
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    Anna Myers

    Anna Myers     Anna Myers studied history at Sussex University in the UK. She currently lives in London with her husband Patrick and their three children.  

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      Desert Queen - Anna Myers

      Well-Behaved Women Don´t Make History

      Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

      LADY HESTER QUEEN OF THE DESERT

      Shut away from the world in an isolated monastery in the hills of Lebanon, Lady Hester, once a glamorous society figure in London who danced all night, and was at the pinnacle to British politics, waited to become Queen of the Jews. Lady Hester had been told by fortune- tellers and self-styled prophets in three countries that this was to be her destiny.

      Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope was born on March 12th 1776 into a family of brilliant thinkers and politicians. Hester was the oldest of three daughters born to the eccentric third Earl of Stanhope, Charles Stanhope, and his first wife Lady Hester Pitt. Her parents had a marriage of true love, unusual for aristocratic families in that era, as most were arranged marriages involving property and finances.

      Her father, Charles, attended Eton before going to the University of Geneva in Switzerland and studying mathematics. He became a member of the House of Commons from 1780 until his accession to the peerage in 1786. Her mother, Hester, was the daughter of the Prime Minister, Pitt the Elder, and first Earl of Chatham.

      Hester’s mother died on 20 July 1780, during the birth of her youngest daughter, Lucy. Charles Stanhope, although devastated by her death, remarried six months later in 1781. His second wife, Louisa Grenville was the daughter and only heir of the Hon. Henry Grenville. Charles and Louisa had three sons together. Louisa Grenville had little to do with the children, abandoning them to governesses at the family estate of Chevening while she cavorted amongst London society.

      Charles meanwhile spent most of his time in his laboratory at Chevening. Apart from being a noted scientist, he was also a keen inventor. During his lifetime, he invented a kind of printing press, known as the Stanhope press, a microscope lens, a stereotyping machine, two

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