Reinas malditas: Emperatriz Sissi, María Antonieta, Eugenia de Montijo, Alejandra Romanov y otras reinas marcadas por la tragedia (Spanish Edition)

The fascinating lives of six queens who were marked by tragedy they couldn't escape, leaving a lasting impact on history.

From exotic, capricious, rebellious, ambitious...

beyond the world of privileges, wealth, and power, all were women of flesh and blood forced to bear the heavy burden of an empire.

Their lives are far from a romantic fairy tale.

Although countless movies and novels have shown the more gentle side of their reign, in general, they were very unhappy.

They share a common fate: loneliness, disorientation, nostalgia, lack of love or suffering for not being able to give birth to an heir.

Also, they all suffered the painful loss of their children, failed marriages, or feeling like outsiders in a court where they were not well received.

Their stories are not great love tales because their marriages were a "matter of state." Some, like Sissi, became empresses against their will and suffered from melancholy; others, like Cristina of Sweden, scandalized with their extravagant behavior and yearning for freedom.

Maria Antonieta and Alejandra Romanov shared a tragic fate, while Queen Victoria of England and Eugenia of Montijo assumed their role with extraordinary dignity in difficult times.

Through personal diaries and family correspondence, Cristina Morató reveals the more human and less known side of these queens, mistreated by history, who could not choose their destiny.