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February 2022 marked 80 years since the Fall of Singapore and Olga is now ready to tell the story of her years as a child prisoner of war. It's a story of great fear and deprivation; of a childhood utterly lost to conflict. It's also a story of class prejudice and unkindness that didn't end when Olga was freed from the camp and returned to England as a refugee.

Curtis Roosevelt was three when he and his sister, Eleanor, arrived at the White House soon after their grandfathers inauguration. The countrys First Grandchildren, a pint-sized double act, they were known to the media as Sistie and Buzzie.In this rich memoir, Roosevelt brings us into the goldfish bowl, as his family called itthat glare of public scrutiny to which all presidential households must submit.

Decía Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) que «donde se celebra matrimonio sin amor, habrá amor sin matrimonio». La historia confirma esa máxima y por eso las aventuras amorosas de los monarcas siempre se contemplaron con una cierta indulgencia. Es evidente que, a día de hoy, las circunstancias han cambiado, pero lo cierto es que la «mujer del rey no siempre es la reina. Así lo demuestran, al menos, las veinte historias de amor que, desde el siglo XIV al XXI, desfilan por estas páginas.