Désirée, Queen of Sweden (Longman Structural Readers: Fiction #Stage 5) -

Annemarie Selinko

Longman

1977

106 páginas

3h 32m

ISBN-10: 0582537738

Second half or Désirée´s diary. The first half appeared in "Désirée, Wife of Marshal Bernadotte". Bernadotte´s new position now takes Désirée to the royal court of Sweden. Life there is very hard for the silk merchant´s daughter who almost married Napoleon in Marseilles. She is happier in Paris, even without her family. But Napoleon is still jealous of her husband. When he and Désirée meet, there is always trouble. And when war comes again, the two men are on opposite sides. Napoleon dies at last, on the island of St. Helena. She goes back to Sweden and there she is crowned: the first Queen of the royal family of Bernadotte.