The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

by Eve Haas
The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

The Secrets of the Notebook: A Woman's Quest to Uncover Her Royal Family Secret

by Eve Haas

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Overview

“The beautiful owner of this book is dearer to me than my life – August your protector.” This one sentence was the key to a mystery involving some of the greatest and most infamous figures in European history, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon and Hitler—and solved by the author of this book.

Eve Haas is the daughter of a German Jewish family that took refuge in London after Hitler came to power. Following a terrifying air raid in the blitz, her father revealed the family secret, that her great-great grandmother Emilie was married to a Prussian prince. He then showed her the treasured leather-bound notebook inscribed to Emilie by the prince. Her parents were reluctant to learn more, but later in life, when Eve was married and inherited the diary, she became obsessed with proving this birthright. The Secrets of the Notebook tells how she follows the clues, from experts on European royalty in London to archives in West Germany and then, under threat of being arrested as a spy by the Communist regime, to an archive in East Germany that had never before opened its doors to the West. What she unearths is a love story set against the upheaval of the Napoleonic wars and the antiSemitism of the Prussian court, and a ruse that both protected Emilie’s daughter and probably condemned her granddaughter—Eve’s beloved grandmother, Anna—to death in the Nazi camps.

When first published in the UK, The Secrets of the Notebook was an Irish Times bestseller. A movie based on the book is in production. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781628723076
Publisher: Arcade
Publication date: 10/01/2013
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 382,309
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Eve Haas was born in Breslau, now Poland, in 1924. She and her family fled Germany for London when Hitler came to power. She pursued a writing career, married, and raised a family, continuing to write children’s books and contribute to magazines and newspapers in the UK. Her book The Secrets of the Notebook recounts her lifelong quest to find and document the truth about her family's link to the lineage of Frederick the Great and to the British Royal Family. She lived in North London, England, until her death in January 2019, at the age of ninety-four.
Eve Haas was born in Breslau, now Poland, in 1924. She and her family fled Germany for London when Hitler came to power. She pursued a writing career, married, and raised a family, continuing to write children’s books and contribute to magazines and newspapers in the UK. Her book The Secrets of the Notebook recounts her lifelong quest to find and document the truth about her family's link to the lineage of Frederick the Great and to the British Royal Family. She lived in North London, England, until her death in January 2019, at the age of ninety-four.

Table of Contents

Prologue The First Glimpse xi

1 Good-bye Berlin-Hello Hampstead 1

2 Granny Anna-No News from Prague 21

3 Meeting Emilie 25

4 The Call to Adventure 35

5 Return to Berlin 53

6 Crossing the Border 63

7 At the Castle Walls 69

8 Charming the Minister 75

9 The Disappearing Passports 85

10 The Opening of the Archives 95

11 My Great-Great-Grandfather-Prince August of Prussia 99

12 Gottschalk 113

13 Finding Emilie 119

14 Going to the Ball 127

15 The Assassin in the Palace and the Disappearance of Victor 133

16 The Death of the Prince 145

17 A Humble Plea 153

18 An Offer to Spy 161

19 Calling Their Bluff 171

20 The Prince in England 177

21 Visiting August 183

22 An Ally in Berlin 191

23 A Poisonous Legacy 195

24 Finding Charlotte 201

25 The Final Piece of the Puzzle 207

26 Tracking Down Isadore and Charlotte 217

27 The Vanished Palace 225

28 A Letter from the Grave 233

Epilogue Visiting Anna 239

Emilie's Plea to the King 248

Prince Wittgenstein's Reply 249

Eve's Family Tree 250

Acknowledgments 251

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