"From Lady Carlisle's trip to Moscow in 1663 to Veronica Atkinson's tour of duty during the 1989 Romanian revolution, it is clear that very little has changed. Four hundred years of innovation, liberation, and improvement clearly bypassed the Foreign Office while making its rounds through Westminster."

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About Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is a British-American biographer and historian. Her books include Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire, and she has also presented historical documentary work for television.

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