Zenda (1963) was adapted from the 1925 Princess Flavia. Princess Flavia (1925) was an operetta with the score by Sigmund Romberg. The novel has been adapted for film, stage, musical, operetta, radio, and television. An English gentleman is persuaded to act as his political decoy to save the interregnum. The Prisoner of Zenda is an 1894 adventure novel by Anthony Hope.