George Willis Tate graduated from Penn State Law School summa cum laude. An amateur historian, he tells the story of Barkley House special passion. George is the great-great grandson of George and Clara Barkley, some of Pensacola’s most influential early immigrant settlers.

Pensacola’s National Registry “Barkley House” is the stage for many interesting and previously untold historically accurate tales. The book reveals the port city’s linkage to the families of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte.  You’ll meet a princess whose family lived in Pensacola, a prince who dined on boiled owls, a French nobleman who owned a hotel on Palafox street, and a Pensacola brick maker whose family included the richest man in America. You’ll forever see the already-famous Barkley House in a more historic light once you‘ve tasted the rich gumbo of Pensacola‘s territorial days via this popular new work of public history!

A writer since undergraduate days, George was honored to receive the Washington Post’s award for “Best Edited Government Publication” and now writes for The Veteran Voice newspaper as well as publishing for Legacy Press.

Part biography, part history and all adventure, the real life of Catherine Wills leaps from the pages of Twice a Princess like a fantasy of Scheherazade.

Niece of George Washington, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte, princess consort of the Kingdom of Naples , and a princess of France, this daughter of America remained true to her southern heritage as she blazed across the pages of history with her husband Prince Achille Murat nephew of Napoleon and son of his greatest cavalry commander. From rough and tumble frontier Florida to the throne rooms of Europe, Princess Kate’s journey is so astounding it scarcely seems real.

Twice A Princess has been accepted as entry in the 2011 Hollywood Book Festival.

Twice a Princess is the third book of Southern author and amateur historian George Willis Tate. With a graduate degree from Penn State summa cum laude and additional study at Stanford, Northwestern, and George Washington, Tate brings a special passion to this tale of royalty in the deep south. He has received recognition from the Washington Post for “Best Edited Government Publication.” Also a genealogist, Tate is a member of numerous lineage societies including the prestigious Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, and Jamestown Society.