Two Queens and a Chronicler

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Two Queens and a Chronicler</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is an atypical historical novel inspired by the lives of Romania's queens Elisabeta (1843-1916) and Marie (1875-1938). </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Written entirely as a dialogue between three women-the two queens and their chronicler a contemporary Romanian-born American writer-the novel enacts a conversation between the past and the present during which </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>the queens reflect on events both from their era and our time politics the two great wars love art beauty life death and other royals including Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. One of them originally from Germany and the other from Great Britain a granddaughter to Queen Victoria the two queens share something with their chronicler: they are immigrant female writers. Their ongoing conversation offers the bits and pieces of a fascinating puzzle.</span></p>