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Title: The Empress of Farewells
Review: This "biography" should be listed under historical fiction. There are no footnotes, family tree, indices, photographs or a bibliography. I find it very difficult to believe and seriously doubt that anyone in the 1860's, especially a cosseted female princess, would supposedly use a phrase in a letter, such as "between a rock and a hard place". That slang term is decidely too modern. I would not recommend this book for the novice history buff. Only those of us who have read extensively on Europeon royalty would understand the relationships between the families and would know who came from where and how closely related the individuals were. I do not think much scholorship went into this book. The only item of interest I learned was that Carlotta died in Belgium and not in Trieste at Miramar.
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