This is well written, readable and extremely interesting.
The historian treats Eugenie's idiosyncrasies as part of being a hot blooded Latin which is cringeworthily gross. I think she may have have been neurodivergent. It's hard to diagnose based on historical records but Latin blood doesn't cause suicide attempts.
The historian is unable to quiet his internal sexism, bias, bigotry, racism and misunderstanding of feminism.
So many of his conclusions are crap but there's solid research here. Just gotta pick it out of his bullshit theories. ( )