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**Gill Paul** is an author of historical fiction, specialising in relatively recent history. She has written two novels about the last Russian royal family: _The Secret Wife_ , published in 2016, which tells the story of cavalry officer Dmitri Malama and Grand Duchess Tatiana, the second daughter of Russia's last tsar; and _The Lost Daughter_ , published in October 2018, that tells of the attachment Grand Duchess Maria formed with a guard in the house in Ekaterinburg where the family was held from April to July 1918. Gill's other novels include _Another Woman's Husband_ , about links you may not have been aware of between Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor, and Diana, Princess of Wales; _Women and Children First,_ about a young steward who works on the _Titanic_ ; _The Affair,_ set in Rome in 1961?62 as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton fall in love while making _Cleopatra_ ; and _No Place for a Lady_ , about two Victorian sisters who travel out to the Crimean War of 1854?56 and face challenges beyond anything they could have imagined.