As a young attaché, Lord Frederic Hamilton served at the courts of imperial Germany and Russia and later in South America. He recalls court balls and ceremonies, emperors and grand dukes, a boating accident at Potsdam, the treasures of Russian monasteries and their tip-hungry guides, and the colour of a European order swept away by the war.
Gossipy, amused and elegiac memoirs for readers of royal and diplomatic history. Download the free EPUB.