The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
C.M. Mayo
2009, Unbridled Books
428 pages, hardback
THIS INTERESTING yarn about Maximilian’s heir presumptive, Prince Agustín de Iturbide y Green, is set against the backdrop of the second Mexican Emperor’s ill-fated reign. Author C.M. Mayo – winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction for her collection Sky Over El Nido – has conducted significant research to compile a story that is both grand yet intimate about a child who sparked an international scandal. The intriguing tale of the Prince of Mexico offers a fine historical lesson about why Maximilian’s paternalistic adventure in a country that did not want him was doomed from the start. – GJ
