Betsy and the Emperor: the true story of Napoleon, a pretty girl, a Regency rake and an Australian colonial misadventure
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage dau...
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| Zusammenfassung: | After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a cage', reduced from the most powerful figure in Europe to a prisoner on a rock in the South Atlantic. But the fallen emperor was charmed by the pretty teenage daughter of a local merchant, Betsy Balcombe ... Anne Whitehead brings to life Napoleon's last years on Saint Helena, revealing the central role of the Balcombe family. She also lays to rest two centuries of speculation about Betsy's relationship with Napoleon ... After Napoleon's death, Betsy travelled to Australia in 1823 with her father, who was appointed the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. When the family lost their fortune, she returned to London and published a memoir which made her a celebrity ... With her extraordinary connections to royalty and high society, Betsy Balcombe led a life worthy of a Regency romance, but she was always fighting for her independence. This new account reveals Napoleon at his most vulnerable, human and reflective, and a woman caught in some of the most dramatic events of her time |
| Beschreibung: | xi, 452 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln Illustrationen, Portraits |
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Preface ix
PART ONE
1 The News 3
2 The Prisoner 12
3 Friends and Foes 20
4 The Briars 31
S The Pavilion 42
6 Boney’s Little Pages 51
7 The French Suite 63
8 The Admiral’s Ball 70
9 Last Days at the Pavilion 81
10 Longwood House 90
11 The New Governor 106
12 Gold Lace and Nodding Plumes 115
13 This Accursed Place 126
14 The Thinning Ranks 138
IS The Sick Lion 146
16 Our Beautiful Island 157
17 The Company of a Green Parrot 165
18 A t the Mercy of the English 175
19 Farewell to the Island 187
PART TWO
20 The Ties that Bind 201
21 The Embattled Surgeon 214
22 An Impending Tempest 223
23 The St Helena Plot 231
24 Official Disgrace 243
25 An Item of News 252
26 The One that Got Away 263
27 Marry in Haste. . . 270
28 ‘.La Petite Angleterre’ 286
29 The Clearing Fog 297
PART THREE
30 Sydney Town 309
31 ‘The Interesting Mrs Abell’ 320
32 The Fashionables 335
33 A Fleeting Entente Cordiale 346
34 The Treasury Under the Bed 356
35 ‘Terrible Hollow’ 371
36 A Fractured Family 383
37 Recollections of the Emperor Napoleon 394
407
Acknowledgements
Notes 409
Index 445
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