Evelyn Fürstin Blücher von Wahlstatt (10 September 1876 – 20 January 1960) was an English diarist and memoirist, who wrote a standard account of life as a civilian aristocrat in Germany during World War I. Princess Blücher was an Englishwoman, the daughter of Frederick Stapleton-Bretherton of a Catholic landed gentry family by Isabella, daughter of William Bernard Petre, 12th Baron Petre.
Here she kept a diary, describing life in Berlin and at the family estate of Krieblowitz (now Krobielowice) in Silesia, Poland), from the point of view of an English exile among the deeply conservative Prussian nobility.
During the cold winter of 1916/1917 she noted the shortages of fuel and food in Berlin which caused public morale, especially of the poorest, to plummet.
There are shivering throngs of hungry care-worn people picking their way through snowy streets... We are all gaunt and bony now, and have dark shadows around our eyes.
Our thoughts are chiefly taken up with wondering what our next meal will be, and dreaming of the good things that once existed.Her memoirs were translated into French and German and reprinted many times, becoming a minor classic.