Author: Cristina Barreiro.
Isabel, Pilar, Paz and Eulalia were the daughters of Queen Isabel II. Four very different women whose lives were spent in the service of their mother and brother Alfonso XII. Isabel, la Chata, was the princess castiza; Pilar died too young; Paz was the kind woman who always looked after the family, and Eulalia, the rebellious infanta, never stopped fighting for her freedom.
Cristina Barreiro, Professor of Contemporary History at the CEU-San Pablo University, has recreated her life as a novel and has charted a wonderful journey through a century of history, since the birth of the Chata in 1851. With them, the reader will travel from Madrid to Paris, London and Munich in times of war and peace. It will be known to Isabel II, Luisa Fernanda, Napoleon III, Eugenia de Montijo, the queen Victoria, Sissi, Alfonso XIII or Victoria Eugenia. You will witness the Restoration, the end of empires, the exile of Spanish kings or the rise and fall of nazism in a dance with history. A journey between the shoe shops of Desengaño Street and the lavish designs of Worth. Between tiaras and dressings, to the sound of zarzuela, waltz and charleston, these four infantas of Spain unveil in this book the essence of a world that, after them, came to an end.
Professor Cristina Barreiro will be the lecturer of the next colloquium organized by The Diplomat in Spain and the Association of Foreign Diplomats (ADE) on July 8 at 18 hours at the Hotel Meliá Princesa, which will have as title Los Borbones en España: de Felipe V a Felipe VI.
Pages: 432
Publisher: La Esfera de los Libros, S.L.
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788413842516
RPP: 21,74 euros
