The Duchess Countess 9781471172571, 9781471172564, 1471172570

'A scintillating story superbly told... [Ostler] packs every paragraph with eye-opening detail' Ysenda Maxtone

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The Duchess Countess
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Talented and resolutely independent, Marie d’Agoult (180576) was one of the most remarkable women of her time. Abandoni

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She would have made a magnificent queen - she certainly was a splendid princess. Princess Alice was the daughter of Que

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Child of the Great Depression, teenage "Duchess of Palms" beauty queen, wife of an acclaimed novelist and late

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Countess Edith Sollohub, born Edith Natalie de Martens, was well known in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg for accompany

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The 443 letters contained in the cartulary deal with practical matters of governance such as homages, fiefs, and the rig

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On Valentine's Day 1945, two soldiers met in a small cafe in Lublin, Poland. She was a Polish Countess, fighting fo

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