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(Download [PDF]) The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Goddaughter *ePub

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      A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria?s court and adapting to life in Victorian England?based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta.With a brilliant mind and a fierce will to survive, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a kidnapped African princess, is rescued from enslavement at seven years old and presented to Queen Victoria as a ?gift.? To the Queen, the girl is an exotic trophy to be trotted out for the entertainment of the royal court and to showcase Victoria?s magnanimity. Sarah charms most of the people she meets, even those who would cast her aside. Her keen intelligence and her aptitude for languages and musical composition helps Sarah navigate the Victorian era as an outsider given insider privileges.But embedded in Sarah?s past is her destiny. Haunted by visions of destruction and decapitations, she desperately seeks a place, a home she will never run from, never fear, a refuge from nightmares and memories

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