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Was mögen die großen Königinnen und Könige dieser Welt wohl gedacht haben? Wie gingen sie mit der Freiheit, die sie in eine für uns kaum vorstellbare Gefangenschaft trieb, um - und was machte das Leben, dass sie führten mit ihnen? Diese Novelle unternimmt den Versuch in die Gedanken der wohl bekanntesten Tudor-Königinnen einzutauchen und lässt die Leserinnen und Leser in das einzig freie Gut Elisabeths blicken. Begonnen beim Tod ihrer Mutter, bis zu ihrem Tod selbst erleben wir Elisabeth einmal vollkommen anders.

Il 10 dicembre del 1936 Edoardo VIII rinuncia al trono d'Inghilterra per amore dell'americana Wallis Simpson. Il nuovo sovrano è suo fratello "Bertie", Giorgio VI, padre di Elisabetta e Margaret. In quei giorni la piccola Margaret, che ha solo sei anni, chiede alla sorella maggiore: "Questo significa che poi diventerai regina anche tu?". "Suppongo di sì", risponde Elisabetta, improvvisamente molto seria. E Margaret commenta, candida: "Povera te".

Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce's progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career as a diplomat, prolific journalist, and magnetic public speaker, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, pioneer scuba diver, early experimenter in psychedelic drugs, and grande dame of the GOP in the Reagan era.

"Her technique was simple: aim for the top", an envious colleague wrote of Clare Boothe Luce. No American woman of the twentieth century aimed so accurately or rose so far as this legendary playwright, politician, and social seductress.