A partir de ese momento, la vida de Anastasia cambia por completo. Las revueltas populares se suceden y, finalmente, la familia real es apresada por los bolcheviques en su propio palacio. Pero al estallar la guerra con Alemania, todo se precipita. ' Junto a sus padres, el zar y la zarina de Rusia, a sus hermanas y a su hermano Alexei, la duquesa Anastasia lleva una existencia sin grandes lujos. In the pages of her diary, Anastasia chronicles the wealth and luxury of her royal days, as well as the fall from power, and her uncertain fate.' When her father and the rest of the family are imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, suddenly Anastasia understands what this war is costing the people. While the tsar is trying win a war and save the country, the citizens are turning on the royal family.

As Russia enters WWI, hunger and poverty grow among the peasants, and soon they are not pleased with their ruler. It's a fairy tale life-until everything changes with the outbreak of war between Russia and Germany. She wears diamonds and rubies, and every morning her mother tells her which matching outfit she and her three sisters shall wear that day. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury her major concerns are how to get out of her detested schoolwork to play in the snow, go ice-skating, or have picnics. Thirteen-year-old Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. The haunting story of Princess Victoria Melita and her conflicted loyalties, set against a powerful cast: Queen Victoria, Rasputin and the doomed Romanovs Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.' 'The palace doors are locked. Exiled once more, she tells us her story. As Russia descends into the chaos of 1917 and the Romanov dynasty falters, Ducky is right at the heart of events.

From disgraced exile in Paris to the glitter of St Petersburg and the mud and carnage of the Eastern Front, she forges her own path. In an era when death is considered preferable to divorce she fights for the freedom to be with the true love of her life. Ducky seems doomed to be a pawn on her grandmother's dynastic chessboard. Her mother is Grand Duchess Marie, the daughter of Tsar Alexander II.

Her father is Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son. For Ducky, Princess Victoria Melita, hers was a Romanov cousin, a member of the doomed Russian royal family. There is one great love in everyone's life.

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