She was a princess, daughter of perhaps the most hated king in Europe. He was just a lowly hussar. Their love affair in turn-of-the-century Vienna was to scandalize a continent. The story of Princess Louise of Belgium and Géza Mattachich, stepson of a minor Croatian count, began with no more than an exchanged glance in a park. Yet the princess and her soldier, divided by wealth and status, pursued their devotion to one another through scandal, ruin, madness and imprisonment. Dan Jacobson's brilliant imagining of this forgotten episode of the Hapsburg court brings to life one of the century's great love stories.
- ISBN10 0141017422
- ISBN13 9780141017426
- Publish Date 5 January 2006 (first published 3 February 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 January 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English