A fascinating history book full of surprising stories.

Since the first Bourbon until the current Prince of Asturias, this book is an invitation to explore the small and great tragedies that have struck this dynasty. Diseases, madness, sexual voracity, endogamy… are just some of the stigmas that mark the chronicle of the Bourbons, filled with setbacks, scandals, and strange deaths.

Zavala investigates the reasons for so much misfortune and wonders to what extent the Bourbons have managed to avoid it in the Twenty-First Century.