Ninety-seven Is My Lucky Number.

[in 16th Century European Society] Marriage Was The Triumphal Arch Through Which Women, Almost Without Exception, Had To Pass In Order To Reach The Public Eye. And After Marriage Followed, In Theory, The Total Self-abnegation Of The Woman.

Mary Queen Of Scots Was My First Love, And That Is Always Something Special.

I Realize That I Had Always In My Heart Of Hearts Planned To Write A Biography Of Marie Antoinette.

The Concentration In My Book On Marie Antoinette's Childhood And On Her Family Influences. It Is Surprising How Some Books Actually Start With Her Arrival In France!

It Can Be A Long Gap Between The Emergence Of Fully Researched Historical Biographies.