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    BBC History Magazine

    A Pole apart

    Aug 01, 2024 3 minutes
    Portrait of a patriot Kazimierz Wojniakowski’s 1796 painting of Polish princess Izabela Czartoryska. During her 89 years “she lived through a period of enormous social and political change”, writes Roger Moorhouse
    Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski William Collins, 208pp, £25 (GETTY IMAGES)

    Everyone had a lockdown project. Some of us learned languages, or took up embroidery. Adam Zamoyski set himself the task of researching the life of his great-great-great-grandmother, the Polish princess Izabela Czartoryska.

    Born in 1746, Czartoryska was certainly a remarkable woman, not least because her exceptional longevity –

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