Anna of Byzantium

Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She's a princess, her father's firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire. The birth of a baby brother doesn't perturb her. Nor do the ""barbarians"" from foreign lands, who think only a son should ascend to power. Anna is as dismissive of them as are her father and his most trusted advisor - his mother, a manipulative woman with whom Anna studies the art of diplomacy.