Author’s NoteTo the reader,
This is at the end of the book but please do not read it until you have finished the story, as it will spoil the plot for you.
Barbara Cartland In 1973 the British Byron Society asked the Mayor of Missolonghi if the people of his town could join with them in celebrating the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the poet’s death.
“But he is not your Lord Byron, he is our Lord Byron,” the Mayor protested.
At Lakythra a glittering white marble slab on the largest grey stone rock bears the inscription in Greek capitals,
“If I am a poet, I owe it to the air of Greece – Byron.”
In Athens, where Byron’s monument stands in the corner of the Zappeion Gardens in direct line with the Parthenon, Hellas crowns him with laurels.
At Missolonghi in the ‘Garden of Hero
