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The Crown of Mexico, Maximilian and His Empress Carlotta
The Crown of Mexico Maximilian and His Empress Carlotta Author:Joan Haslip He was a handsome, gentle idealist, rumored to be the illegitimate grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte. She was beautiful, fiercely ambitious, and totally devoted to her husband's cause. Maximilian and Carlotta's greatest dream of power became reality when the Emperor of France appointed them to rule over Mexico. As they boarded the ship that was ... more »to take them to the New World, the royal couple envisioned a future of loving subjects, fine palaces, and a reign of dazzling accomplishments. Instead they arrived to find a lukewarm welcome, shabby and uncomfortable residences, and an empire that refused to be governed. The crowns they had so ardently sought were to lead not to glory but to violent death and madness.« less