I hide in my garden and gaze at the tree tops - how high they reach now. Will there come a day perhaps when it becomes "national"? I hope so. But where will I be? Why can't everyone who loved a nation fit into it? 1837, Piraeus. The twenty-year-old king Otto returns to the country as a newlywed. The first queen of Greece is named Amalia and she is a nineteen-year-old German duchess. Her sole duty and mission, to bear a successor. Amalia does everything with passion and determination. She loves her husband, Greece, and the people of this country, that may seem strange to her. She becomes familiar with many things experiencing the impressive contradictions of a country searching for its identity, but there are things she will never understand. She knows firsthand the small and great protagonists of the Struggle and the politics of the 19th century and actively involves herself in the administration of the new state. She endures physical torture for her childlessness and resists insults, but she also resists the exciting new currents of democracy blowing around her. Her refuge, the only thing she grew with her own hands, her garden, which was destined to become national one day.
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