Konigliche Hoheit by Thomas Mann

Set in a small German principality, the novel follows an idealistic young prince who, torn between dynastic obligations and personal longing, becomes involved with a spirited woman from the bourgeois world; their relationship provokes social and familial tensions that expose the comic pretensions of court life and probe themes of duty, identity, and the uneasy clash between archaic monarchy and modern bourgeois values.

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