Empress Eugenie: Her Secret Revealed
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (741 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1906402027 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wife of Napoleon III and close friend of Queen Victoria, she suffered the loss of her beloved sister, her only son, and her adopted country. 'An extraordinary odyssey into family history' -The Mail on Sunday. The Empress Eugénie was one of the most glamorous, celebrated and ultimately tragic figures of the nineteenth century. But did Eugénie take her greatest secret-an illegitimate child, conceived when she was a teenager in Spain and fathered by the only man she ever truly loved-to the grave with her? And if so, what became of the child? After half a lifetime's research Joyce Cartlidge has pieced together evidence from historic records and clues in correspondence from Eugénie and her family and friends, some of it never printed before, to tell a compelling story of love and motherhood that ties the Spanish house of Montijo and t
Wishful Gossip Empress Eugenie: Her Secret RevealedThe title is the best part of the entire book that at best is tedious to read, in particular the endless chapters about the author's relatives. Empress Eugenie was an amazing woman of great intelligence. Queen Victoria was her intimate friend and this alone speaks volumes about her. Mrs. Cartlidge chooses to weave a story around missing correspondence but in my opinion fails to prove her theory. The author ignores many very tell. Duke of Sesto insights Nancy Smith Joyce Cartlidge's revelations about the Duke of Sesto were among those that inspired my book, Imperial Wedding of Old Paris. Eugenie's mysterious trip to Scotland and England is dealt with in Ms. Cartlidge's book; but at least one letter that Eugenie exchanged with the Duke of Sesto, whose text is in my next book Imperial Triangle, shows the reason for the trip, and that was for her to hint that they should meet up in London. She wanted to be beyond the Imperial c