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This is the story of a mother's attempts to regain her children. In 1984 Catherine Laylle, a Frenchwoman living in London, met and married a German medical student. The couple had two sons, and the family moved to Germany. Catherine subsequently returned to England with the boys, who spent the school holidays with their father in Germany - until the summer of 1994, when Catherine's husband had the custody ruling of a London court overturned in Germany, and the boys were taken from her.
In 1984, Catherine Laylle, a Frenchwomen living in London, met and married a German medical student, Dieter. The couple had two sons, Alexander and Constantin. When, however, at Dieter's insistence, they moved back to his home town in Germany, the marriage began to fall apart. Dieter refused to get a job, Catherine found living with his family oppressive and eventually, she returned to London with the children. The boys spent term time with their mother, holidays with their father - until the summer of 1994, when Dieter decided that his sons should be raised as Germans and, with the support of the local judge, defied the London court ruling that gave Catherine custody. Catherine went to the ...
Account of a mother's ultimate nightmare ... to lose her children ... and of a husband willing to break his children's hearts in order to achieve exclusive custody of them.
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Ze was First Lady van Engeland. Dit is haar eigen verhaal. Cherie Blair was de eerste vrouw van een Britse premier met een eigen carrière. Als advocaat bereikte ze al op jonge leeftijd de top van haar vakgebied, en vond toen als vrouw van Tony Blair een nieuwe, uitdagende rol in de schijnwerpers. In haar memoires vertelt zij voor het eerst hoe het was om deze rol te combineren met een leven als hardwerkende moeder en carrièrevrouw. In haar autobiografie vertelt Cherie Blair over haar eenvoudige, onconventionele jeugd in Liverpool, haar carrière als jurist, haar leven als moeder van vier kinderen en over haar jaren op Downing Street 10 als vrouw van de Britse premier.
In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline Pascarl related the gripping story of her abusive childhood and her subsequent teen marriage to a prince. What should have been a fairy tale with a happy ending deteriorated into a nightmare of deceit and betrayal - ending in the kidnapping of her two small children by her former husband, who spirited them back to Malaysia. In Since I Was a Princess, Pascarl peels back the layers of her life after the abduction. She tells how she channelled her grief, forging an existence as an aid worker and humanitarian ambassador in war-torn countries and working with refugees and the dispossessed. She describes how she persuaded some of the world's most influential fi...
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