The Secrets of the Notebook: A royal love affair and a woman’s quest to uncover her incredible family secret
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Eve Haas. The Secrets of the Notebook: A royal love affair and a woman’s quest to uncover her incredible family secret
The SECRETS of the NOTEBOOK
PROLOGUE. The FIRST GLIMPSE
Contents
GOODBYE BERLIN – HELLO HAMPSTEAD
GRANNY ANNA – No NEWS from PRAGUE
MEETING EMILIE
The CALL to ADVENTURE
RETURN to BERLIN
CROSSING the BORDER
At the CASTLE WALLS
CHARMING the MINISTER
The DISAPPEARING PASSPORTS
The OPENING of the ARCHIVES
My GREAT, GREAT GRANDFATHER – PRINCE AUGUST of PRUSSIA
GOTTSCHALK
FINDING EMILIE
GOING to the BALL
An ASSASSIN in the PALACE and the DISAPPEARANCE of VICTOR
The DEATH of the PRINCE
A HUMBLE PLEA
An OFFER to SPY
CALLING Their BLUFF
The PRINCE in ENGLAND
VISITING AUGUST
An ALLY in BERLIN
A POISONOUS LEGACY
FINDING CHARLOTTE
The FINAL PIECE of the PUZZLE
TRACKING DOWN ISADORE and CHARLOTTE
The VANISHED PALACE
A LETTER from the GRAVE
EPILOGUE. VISITING ANNA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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I dedicate this book to the memory of Emilie, Charlotte and Anna
I owe so much to my dearest parents, Hans and Grete, and to my Uncle Freddy and Alice his wife.
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When we reached the house I was surprised to find that it was filled with German doctors who worked at the German hospital in London. I was put straight into a big Victorian bedstead with sheets and blankets, another new experience for a child used to an eiderdown and a feather bed, but a great deal more pleasant than the kipper experience. There was an open fireplace in the room and from the chimney I could hear the contented sound of pigeons softly cooing on the roof as I began to slip into an exhausted sleep. It was a sound I had never heard before. I felt so safe in the knowledge that I had been reunited with my father.
The next morning at breakfast we shared our table with a tortoise, which was happily munching away at some lettuce leaves while its owner, an English lady, sipped her coffee like it was the most normal thing in the world.
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