Lola Montez--the exotic dancer-turned-political diabolic of Victorian Times. It is 1842, London, and the gorgeous, ever-capricious twenty-two year old Eliza Gilbert, (aka Lola Montez) is in deep trouble and seeks escape from a divorce trial. Desperate to be free, Lola accepts an alluring offer of a paid trip to Spain, if she will only fulfill a few tasks for Juan de Grimaldi ́a Spanish theatre impresario who is also a government agent and spy for the exiled Spanish queen, Maria Cristina.
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