Subtitled: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family's Secret
Nonfiction by Eve Haas
As a sixteen-year-old German Jewish girl in 1940, Eve was told by her father that her family had a secret royal ancestor, and he showed her a notebook as proof. The notebook was a diary, handwritten by Prince August, a member of the Hohenzollern royal family in the direct line of the Prussian throne. At the time Eve's family was living in London, having narrowly escaped from Nazi Germany a few years before, and the bombings in England had made her father feel concerned that this family secret would die with him.
After that first revelation Eve's father apparently had hidden the notebook away, and it was not until her mother's death in 1970 that Eve was able to look at the notebook once again. At that point, Eve began to try to prove the authenticity of the notebook and of her family's connection to the royals of Prussia, a journey that would take her into danger behind the Iron Curtain and into East Germany.
This is a very interesting description, and the story should have been fascinating to read. However, I couldn't get myself into the story. The information was good, but it wasn't written in a very exciting way.
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