Vasily Zubakin’s new novel is about love. Its main characters are Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov and the British King Edward the Eighth. They did not remain on the thrones of their powers for long, but each went down in history because for the sake of love they went against their monarchical dynasty, against traditions and prejudices. At the same time, the author makes an attempt to complete the story in his own way. The plot quickly takes the book's heroes from Windsor Castle to the taiga hermitage, from the Cote d'Azur to the battlefields, from Gatchina to Paris, from the Karakum desert to the Alps. The secret services of many countries are on the trail of the heroes, but at all turns of fate, the heroes of the book are saved by love and honor, devotion and nobility.