Download or read book The Turbulent Duchess written by Baroness Orczy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Turbulent Duchess by Baroness Orczy is about the story of Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise, an upstanding woman ruler of the French throne during the 19th century. Excerpt: "When our mothers were still in their teens, when women wore crinolines, and chignons and prunella boots, when Queen Victoria sat, a sorrowing widow, on the throne of England, and her son could look forward with assurance to succeeding her one day, when one drove four days in a calèche from York to London, and it took six months to get to Australia..."