Chapter FourThe drawing room of the Royal Pavilion was crowded with guests.
After a long but superlative dinner the majority of them were sitting down to play backgammon, whist or any other card game of their choosing.
Lady Roysdon looked around and realised that there was no one in the Chinese-style fantasia that the Prince had created at so much expense whom she had not met before.
Two guests always amused her. One of them was the exquisitely meticulous Beau Brummell, who had established his reputation for Social elegance and wit while still a schoolboy at Eton.
The Prince Regent had presented him with a Coronetcy in his Regiment when he was only fifteen.
Afterwards their friendship became closer until the Prince’s admiration was unfeigned and he accepted Brummell’s views on fashion
