Every Inch a King: A Biography of Dom Pedro I, First Emperor of Brazil

This is the biography of one of the most colourful and dashing young monarchs who ever lived. His shortcomings—impulsiveness, quick temper, weakness for women—were offset by his truly generous nature. He became a surprising liberal, the only reigning monarch to defy and outwit Metternich, "the evil genius of the reaction," and he was at one time offered the thrones of Spain and Greece.
With a mad grandmother, a mother whose lovers and political intrigues were a court scandal, and a father ...