Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena - The Remarkable Story of a Fallen Emperor and a Teenage Girl - Bok av Elizabeth Balcombe - Inbunden
The girl and the monarchLucia Elizabeth (Betsy) Balcombe was born in 1802, the second child of William Balcombe, an official of the Honourable East India Company, and his wife Jane, who were living with their family in a cottage called The Briars, on the remote Atlantic Ocean island of St. Helena. Betsy and her older sister were educated in England, but in 1814 they returned to St Helena to rejoin their parents and younger brothers. After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the allied powers had taken..