“I never found the ambassador, but I found the love of my life,” he reminisced at a reception on Tuesday evening that had a subdued note due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II last Thursday. The now Mrs Kenyon moved to Britain and studied Law at Oxford and is the first Romanian-speaking Barrister in the UK. While on assignment for the BBC in Bucharest in 1994 (and trying to interview the British ambassador) for a story about baby trafficking in the wake of the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime, he met his future wife, Flavia, at a reception. His love affair with Romania has a deeply personal link too. It presents the British-born ‘fairytale’ Queen Marie, who Kenyon considers was perhaps Romania’s best-ever leader, and features Cold War spies and Stalinist dictators-and it’s all true. The impeccably researched book captivates readers with its engaging writing, telling the stories of Dracula and fascist death cults of the 1930s.
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