From Booklist
Hungarian prince and socialite Franz Hohenlohe has composed a royally engaging autobiography. His short chapters tell numerous fascinating stories, including playing king with other regal children and using chamber pots as crowns, retreating to summer cottages in the south of France when eastern European winters became unbearably cold, imprisonment in immigration camps stateside and conspiring with the FBI, and, later, serving as a GI in the U.S. Army. While in the army, Prince Franz used his charm and Oxford education to outwit the MPs and to enjoy wonderful dinners with the foreign elite (who were, on many occasions, old friends of the family). Franz calls attention to his book by naming famous people he has encountered, such as Marlene Dietrich, Jean Paul Getty, and William Randolph Hearst; but what is more interesting and appealing is his zest for life, which makes all his tales exciting. You don't have to be a royalty buff to find this an enjoyable, almost decadent episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Lisa Orzepowski
