What About the Princess?

With a foreword by Arthur Torrington, CBE, Director of the Windrush Foundation, this book tells the story of Mona Baptiste who rose from humble beginnings in Trinidad to international star. In June 1948 Mona disembarked from the Empire Windrush ship at Tilbury, like so many of her fellow passengers she had travelled from the Caribbean to England to start a new life, and what a life it turned out to be! Within weeks of disembarking she made the first of countless radio appearances and she would go on to feature regularly on the television, produce a string of popular records, and appear in many films as well as stage shows in London, France and Germany. There were two marriages, the first to a violent jewel thief, a turbulent disaster, the other to a loving Irishman, idyllic. Truly a superstar in her day, Mona deserves to be remembered in the United Kingdom she loved and in the land of her birth, Trinidad.