Dimensions
156 x 235 x 18mm
An intimate look into the lives of eight of Europe's most famous royal brides.
As she did with the royal courtesans of 'Cupid and the King' in 'Crowned in a Far Country', Princess Michael of Kent presents biographical portraits of eight royal brides: Prussian Princess Catherine who later became Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia; Archduchess of Austria turned Queen of France Marie Antoinette; Maria Carolina, also an Austrian archduchess, who became Queen of Naples and the Two Sicilies; Austrian Leopoldina who left not only country but continent behind to become Empress of Brazil; Eugenie, Grandee of Spain, whose marriage to Louis-Napoleon crowned her Empress of France; Vicky, the daughter of England's Queen Victoria, who ruled after marriage as Empress of Prussia; and the Danish sisters who went on to rule alongside their husbands as Queen of England and Empress of Russia.
Though all of distinguished birth and status in their own right, each of these women left her home country to marry into the most coveted seat of the royal family of another. Through each of their stories, the author illuminates not only the politics and power brokering behind royal marriages, but the transformation of these women from privileged princesses to women of power and historical importance.
