This is Maria Fairweather's second biography. The first was The Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Volkonsky published in 1999 of which Victoria Glendinning wrote. "A rich, compelling historical biography - the extraordinary story of a beautiful princess whose life and loves were intimately interwoven with those of great men at the cataclysmic centre of events in early nineteenth-century Europe.'
Maria Fairweather is author of The Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess
Volkonsky (1999): 'Vibrant and passionately human', TLS.
Maria Fairweather also wrote The Pilgrim Princess: A Life of Princess Volkonsky.
Maria Fairweather is married to the recently retired British ambassador to Italy. This is her first book.