Provides facts and information about the Romanovs, the slain family of the last Russian tsar, the claims by some that Anna Anderson was really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the results of forensic tests on the skeletons found in a shallow grave in Siberia.
Sophia, now Catherine, wife of the unstable Russian heir, Peter, struggles against the forces that want to depose Empress Elizabeth and put Prince Ivan on the throne as Russia and her native Prussia go to war and she has to make sacrifices.
Portrait of England's longest-reigning queen during her Diamond Jubilee year, looking at changes and reforms in the monarchy, people she met, her children, the aftermath of Diana's death in 1997, and places she traveled.
Before she can become Catherine the Great, fifteen-year-old Sophie will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia--at any cost.
