From Catherine the Great's encounter with a horse to scandalous 'zig-zag' technique used by Napoleon's wife: The scurrilous tales of sexual exploits of some of history's most famous women (but don't believe them all)
Russia's Catherine the Great was the subject of vicious rumours about her sex life, including the untrue claim that she was crushed to death by a horse when trying to be intimate with it.
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