2005 Booker Prize (longlist)
She was a princess, the daughter of King Leopold II of the Belgians, the wife of a prince and a familiar figure in the court of the aged Emperor, Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary.Her lover was Second Lieutenant Geza Mattachich. Ten years younger than the princess, a dashing figure in his fitted tunic and shiny boots, he was an unknown, undistinguished, unmoneyed subaltern: a man of dubious origin and extravagant ambition.
Genre: Historical
Genre: Historical
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