Chapter 4Xenia awoke with a feeling of urgency, then realised as she opened her eyes that she had several reasons for anxiety.
First and foremost was the knowledge that she might actually have to marry the King before Johanna returned.
The possibility made her feel very alarmed.
Then she told herself sensibly that Johanna would see the announcement of the King’s forthcoming marriage in the English newspapers and come to Luthenia at once.
Xenia was quite certain that every newspaper in Europe would carry the story that the King’s marriage would take place on the following Tuesday.
Editorials would be speculating on the need for such haste and doubtless would attribute it to the truth – that it was a palliative for the people.
At the same time the thought of becoming the King’s legal w
