The newest book byCather­ine Mayo, THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE has just been released. Who knew that Mex­ico had a half– Amer­i­can prince with a D.C. con­nec­tion? The prince’s mother, a Wash­ing­ton belle, grew up at Rosedale, the his­toric coun­try estate on Newark Ave NW (very near Wis­con­sin Ave) founded by her grand­fa­ther, Gen­eral Uriah Forrest.

This lit­tle boy’s future was hotly debated not just in Mex­ico but in Wash­ing­ton D.C. and in every court in Europe. Set in the mid-19th cen­tury when Max­i­m­il­ian von Hab­s­burg was Emperor of Mex­ico, THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE is based on the true and never before com­pletely told story about a half– Amer­i­can, half Mex­i­can boy who, as in a fairy­tale, became a prince and then a pawn in the struggle-to-the-death over Mexico’s des­tiny.

The book is avail­able at Barnes & Noble, Pol­i­tics & Prose, and Ama­zon (buy­ing locally always sug­gested). For more info go to www.cmmayo.com

“Epic in scope… impres­sively researched…Mayo’s rean­i­ma­tion of a cru­cial period in Mex­i­can his­tory should sat­isfy his­tory buffs and those in the mood for an engag­ing story brim­ming with majes­tic ambi­tion.”
—Pub­lish­ers Weekly