The Memoirs of Cleopatra

The world-renowned author of THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HENRY VIII turns from Renaissance Britain to ancient Egypt and the story of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile. The story is told by the young queen herself. A saga of ambition and power, it is also a tale of passion that begins when the twenty-one-year-old Cleopatra seeks help from the Roman general Julius Caesar, who is later assassinated. After the defeat of Marc Antony, the second man she loves, Cleopatra chooses suici...