You conclude, from reading this book, that many people wanted Rasputin dead for many different reasons. Andrew Cook is meticulous in relating the whole, sorry tale of Rasputin's increasing influence on the Tsarina and the belief by many that he was virtually running the country. Rumours and plots...
Well, as the rating says it was ok....... This book could have been so much more. The author has obviously gone to quite some lengths to research the background of this mysterious, self aggrandising character. The book systematically debunks a lot of the Pepita/Lockhart promoted myths about Rei...
Amaryllis was appalled. She disliked Anne, and they both knew it. He told her there was no alternative. Anne was pregnant. She and Esmond had been separated since October, so the child was his. He didn’t tell her that in 1948 Anne had had a baby which didn’t live, which had been his too. Esmond R...
The crowned heads of Europe were invited to a fortnight-long celebration starting with a royal thanksgiving ceremony at St Paul’s on 21 June. It would be a display of Imperial glory unprecedented in the fifty years since the coronation. James Monro knew that if he could only bypass the Commission...
Lucas in 1904. However, it is often in unremarkable places such as this that some of the most remarkable things happen. Indeed, some six years before Lucas wrote these words, Newhaven’s London & Paris Hotel was the unwitting host to an event that was to have far reaching repercussions, not on...
While it took some ten days to complete the challenge of dusting down the entire farm, outbuildings and vehicles left behind, the first arrests were down to pure luck (or bad luck from the point of view of those arrested).1 Roger Cordrey had left Leatherslade Farm on Saturday 10 August, met up wi...