Isabella, or The Secrets of the Madrid Court

Georg Born (1837-1902) is a famous German writer, author of popular thrilling historical-adventure novels in many countries, filled with intrigues, conspiracies, passions, chases, duels, and adventures.
From the published novel, the reader will learn about all the secrets of the Madrid court during the reign of Queen Isabella II, from her ascension to the throne as a thirteen-year-old girl in 1843 to her exile after the revolution of 1868, about civil wars, struggles for power, the atrocities of the Inquisition, secret societies; about flirtations on the edge of debauchery and hypocritical religious fanaticism, and of course about the adventures of the queen's noble guards.