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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