Blondes by Paula Yates

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Throughout the pages of history there are women who’ve reached the pinnacles of success just by having blonde hair and wearing too much lipstick. A true blonde realizes that subtlety can get stuffed: a little ostentation never hurt any girl.

This book is a pantheon of the great blonde women - from Eve who always behaved like a blonde, to the Venetians who had special turrets built on their roofs so that they could bake their hair all day. From Helen of Troy who launched a thousand ships with her fair hair and always took her top off to encourage the soldiers at battles over her, to Boadicea the first appalling blonde driver, and Lucrezia Borgia who never did anything without first washing her hair.

Madame de Pompadour decided to turn to religion but refused to give up rouge; Marie Antoinette bought a pair of earrings so expensive that her husband had to pay for them on the hire purchase for the next six years. Meanwhile, Josephine Bonaparte’s much younger blonder cousin was kidnapped by Algerian corsairs who gave her as a present to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. From then on she behaved as a great blonde should.

Every time she crossed the Bosphoros in her boat she was accompanied by thousands of little fish with precious stones cow-gummed onto their backs. They were attached to the ship by tiny golden chains so that it appeared they were escorting her.

To be a sultana was obviously that blonde’s raisin d’être.

This book is filled with blonds with whims, blondes with Svengalis, blondes with jewels, blondes with ambitions, blondes with brains and dumb blondes who did very little except lie in bed eating chocolates. There are blondes like Blanche Dubois who ‘always depended on the kindness of strangers’ and blondes who couldn’t imagine anything worse.

This is the book for everyone who’s ever longed to be borne blonde, and for everyone who’s ever wondered if they do have more fun.

Once and for all this book proves that they do!