60 Años de Soledad / Sixty Years of Solitude: The Life of Empress Charlotte of Mexico

La emperatriz volvi?a ser princesa. Despu廥 de que su marido fuera fusilado en el Cerro de las Campanas, la consentida, la enamorada, se convirti?en una paria de las monarqu燰s europeas y pas?sesenta a隳s en la locura.

Esta obra es la primera que se concentra en las seis d嶰adas que Carlota de Sajonia-Coburgo-Gotha vivi?despu廥 de que se derrumbara el Segundo Imperio Mexicano, y ofrece un estudio lido de uno de los personajes m嫳 apasionantes en la historia del pa疄. Aqu?hablan los diarios de los m嶮icos de Carlota, los papeles de Adrien Goffinet (administrador de sus bienes), testigos de aquellos a隳s, archivos reales, las cartas de su servidumbre, bit塶oras de viajeros y la prensa europea de la 廧oca.

Paso a paso, se revela c鏔o la "princesa m嫳 triste del mundo" termin?convertida en un pe鏮. Y c鏔o, de las ruinas del M憖ico de Maximiliano, surgi?el imperio privado del rey belga Leopoldo II en el Congo.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Carlota went from a fairy tale into hell. This is the story of that hell.

The empress went back to being a princess. After her husband was shot on the Hill of the Bells, the spoiled young wife became a pariah among the European monarchs and spent the next sixty years deranged.

This work is the first that focuses on the six decades that Carlota of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha lived after the fall of the Second Mexican Empire, and offers a lucid study of one of the most fascinating people in Mexican history. In this book, we see the diaries of Carlota's physicians, the papers of Adrien Goffinet (manager of her assets), testimonies from those years, royal archives, letters from her servants, travelers' logs, and the European press from the time.

Step by step, we see how "the saddest princess in the world" wound up as a pawn. And how, out of the fallout of Maximilian's Mexico came the private empire of the Belgian King Leopold II in the Congo.