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The Elusive Empress

She fell in love with the man – and married an Empire.

Picture of the book entitled Elusive Empress as published

The beautiful and tragic Elisabeth of Austria – wife of Emperor Franz Josef – has often been likened to Princess Diana. A reluctant Empress, she was adored by her people; championing the cause of the afflicted and influencing her husband to institute social and political reforms and improvements in hospitals.

A superb horsewoman, she hunted with the Spencers at Althorp. Men everywhere fell under her spell. Yet beneath the beauty lay a mercurial personality. Obsessed with dieting and exercise, haunted by tragedy and the hereditary insanity of her Wittelsbach heritage, she took to constant travelling; searching for a happiness which always eluded her. Increasingly distant from her people and her husband, she surrounded herself with a handful of trusted companions and, together, their journey took them to her inevitable fate and the legend that became – Sisi.

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Marceline

Tragedy, Triumph, and a secret that will echo down the years

St Petersburg, Russia, 1909.

Picture of the book entitled Marceline as published

Marceline Villeneuve Dumas is thrust into a loveless, arranged marriage with the debauched and violent aristocrat, Count Vladimir Ivanov. Finding love in the arms of Captain Yuri Grigoryev starts her on a turbulent journey that takes her to the court of the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas II and into the clutches of the infamous Rasputin.

When tragedy strikes, she throws in her lot with the Imperial family as they lurch from abdication to imprisonment and exile – and finally to the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg.

There, a secret begins which will echo down the years……

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