The biography of an English adventurer, and a highly decorated soldier.
As Simona is off to Bucharest I happened upon this interesting fact on
horse driven taxis there by Skoptis'. Their falsetto voices interested Paddy Fermor as it did me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptsy
After having a couple of kid's, the husband then castrates himself....

"takes all sorts I suppose!