This book evokes the vacations taken by princely and royal figures. These magnificently illustrated pages offer a nostalgic and touching glimpse of the monarchs, captured in their more private, informal moments. The photographs, many of which are being published here for the first time, bring us back at the time of the Shah and Soraya's love affair, in Crimea on the foot-steps of the Roumanoff, in Ostende with the queen Astrid, with Sissi on her personal train, or again with the Grimaldi family on their yacht, the Carostefal... Book jacket.