Rupertof Hentzau

The story is set within a framing narrative told by a supporting character from The Prisoner of Zenda, commencing three years after the conclusion of Zenda, and deals with the same fictional country somewhere in Germanic Middle Europe, the kingdom of Ruritania. Most of the same characters recur: Rudolf Elphberg, the dissolute absolute monarch of Ruritania; Rudolf Rassendyll, the English gentleman ...