Greedy to power men leave their lovers and enter into "profitable" marriages, in any way eliminating competitors. Ladies who dream of kings ruling the world from their bed are ready for a lot, even for crimes. By means of clever tricks paved the way to the throne former concubine Cixi, who became the head of the Chinese Empire. The daughter of a small servant Jeanne Poisson, better known as the all-powerful Marquise de Pompadour, also did not hesitate to do anything. And Boris Godunov, and the Grand Duke and then the Russian Emperor Alexander I, and Princess Sophia Alekseevna and Queen Elizabeth of England they had to sacrifice a lot in order to write their name in history.