HSH Prince Louis Richard II de la Pau was born in exile in Australia just a little after the Creation of the World and was brought up mainly in France, Egypt and the United Kingdom. He is currently living in Bulgaria, where he is a translator and writer and doing penance for sin in this life and previous ones. His non-fiction works on Thracian history and Roman archaeology have been published by the National Academy of Sciences in Sofia and Vienna, and he has just finished writing his first semi-autobiographical novel, ' A Prayer for a Prince, or Valse Triste', which reveals the darkness behind the scenes in one of Italy's most important royal families. The book is under consideration for publication in the United States. He is currently under contract to produce a book of dark/comic fairy stories, which accounts for the sudden deficit in the State National Alcohol Reserves in Bulgaria.
