Charlotte Baird is a young heiress, but is determined to become more than a society matron, and is certainly in no great rush to marry any of the “younger sons” presented to her.Ĭharlotte has taken up photography and we learn about the early days of photography and the changes that come with the ability to take a picture of a person or event. Yet the reader cannot help but realize the author has drawn a parallel between the Empress Elizabeth, a woman whose life was very much like that of the more recent Princess Diana. The Empress Elizabeth is spending time in England, riding at the hunt, and that much of the novel is based on real history. And oh-la-la it is occasionally ever so slightly racy in a very Victorian way, which is plenty fast enough for me.
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