Historically, many royal marriages have represented the unions of dynasties, with true engagements of the heart notable for their rarity. Yet royal couples could fall in love, and this book is full of surprises, from the undying love that the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, felt for his Tsarina, to the unlikely love that flourished between Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Amongst them, too, are less happy loves of Crown Prince Rudolph for his 17-year-old lover, Countess Mary Vetsera, or, in the 1940s, of the Prince of Sweden, refused consent to marry the girl he loved she only became his princess over 30 years later. Bringing the reader right up to modern times, and touching, absorbing, and tragic by turns, these stories bring the glamour and the contradictions of royalty vividly to life.
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Gill Paul studied Medicine at Glasgow University in Scotland and now works as an author specializing in health and historical fiction and non-fiction. Her health books include the Eat Yourself series on nutrition, four Pilates books written with Alan Herdman, and TV tie-ins to the series Food Hospital and Biggest Loser. Her next novel, The Secret Wife, set in Russia in 1918, will be published in September 2016.
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