Editor's Note: Linda Rodriguez McRobbie is newly the author of Princesses Behaving Badly, a hilariously raunchy romp through the past, exploring the little-known lives of outrageous princesses. Some were ruthless, others scandalous. All of them, though, behaved more badly than you or I could imagine. To remember their wild and crazy ways, Linda has described the antics of five unprincessly princesses. From now until 11:59 EST on Thursday 11/21, if you can correctly match the princess with her bad behavior in the form below, you will be entered to win a copy of Princesses Behaving Badly. So take off your tiara and get to guessing!

Most people above Disney age probably know that being a princess isn't quite all it’s cracked up to be -- with great privilege can come great boredom and even greater restriction on one’s freedom. But expectations of princessly behavior still persist. Witness the fascination with Britain’s ill-fated Princess Diana and now, with her son’s wife, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, better known as commoner-made-good Kate Middleton. We want princesses to be all sweetness and light, and we don’t want to know that real princesses are just human beings in fancy dresses.

Our modern perceptions of princesses and what it means to be one is complicated by the fact that too little is really known about historical princesses -- too often, princesses are just footnotes in a bigger story. In Princesses Behaving Badly, a collection of biographies of princesses who broke the mold in some way, I wanted to shed a bit of light on those forgotten princesses. These are the princesses who made bad decisions, or just ruthless ones; who loved recklessly and lived boldly; who drank and partied more than they preened and curtsied; who survived when they probably shouldn't have; and who generally don’t fit the narrow-waisted, doe-eyed dimensions of a princess.

So, how well do you know your princesses? Here below are the dastardly and dashing deeds of five different princesses. Can you match them up to the right princess?

1. According to contemporary historians, this minor princess turned major empress had "a heart like a serpent and a nature like that of a wolf," "she favored evil sycophants and destroyed good and loyal officials," and, most damning, "She killed her sister, butchered her elder brothers, murdered the ruler, poisoned her mother. She is hated by gods and men alike." Was it true? Probably not exactly -- but this ruthless lady did have a deep Machiavellian-before-Machiavelli streak, and it kept her in power for more than fifty years.

2. This hard-riding warrior princess was the only daughter in a pack of 14 sons, so she learned to wrestle -- and never lost. Her people frequently bet horses on their bouts; she amassed a herd of more than 10,000 from wrestling alone. When it came time for her to be married, she declared that she would only give herself to the suitor who could beat her on the wrestling mat. No one could. Though she did eventually marry, it wasn't to someone who could best her on the mats. It was for love.

3. How did a 19^th century cobbler’s daughter become the toast of notoriously fashionable -- and notoriously snobbish -- Bath, England? Through a winning combination of luck, guile, recklessness, and sheer, unadulterated imagination. Oh, and by pretending to be the princess of an invented Far East island nation with a penchant for feathered turbans and a partiality to curries. The only thing stranger than her myriad fictions and lies she told to maintain them was her real life.

4. This nouveau riche princess was one of the most shocking divas at court: She wore sheer negligee that showed off her nipples, bathed every day in a bathtub of milk, and had a golden cup fashioned in the shape of her breast. She was also, it was rumored, so wildly promiscuous that her frequent sexual liaisons and attendant chronic pelvic pain had literally rendered her unable to walk. And her demands on her staff were nothing short of bizarre: One contemporary reported a meeting with the princess in her rooms, which she spent using her lady-in-waiting’s throat as a footrest.

5. Long before Lady Gaga ever contemplated beef as fashion, this princess was wearing a leather mask lined with raw veal to bed, an effort to preserve her famed loveliness (and to ward off freckles). And that wasn't even the strangest thing she did in the name of beauty: Her floor-length hair required dozens of egg yolks and 20 bottles of the best French brandy to wash. She was dangerously thin and driven to "fasting" diets of grapes and milk, or a bizarre mixture of oranges, raw meat juice and egg whites. She exercised for hours a day, rarely pausing to eat. Her waist measured only 18 to 19 inches up until her death (and after four children, too). At one point, the 5-foot, 8-inch princess weighed only 95 pounds (most of which was probably hair). She also, perhaps unsurprisingly given her manic behavior, suffered frequent bouts of depression and once asked for a "fully equipped lunatic asylum" for her birthday.

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