Chapter 6Driving towards the Cathedral with the crowd cheering wildly on either side of the route, Xenia felt not only that she was in a dream but that she must also do something about it.
Every moment before she left the Palace for the Cathedral she had expected Johanna to arrive.
She had even sent downstairs three times to ask if there was ‘a lady from England’ to see her.
The answer each time had been ‘no’ and there was nothing she could do but allow Margit to dress her in the beautiful diamond embroidered wedding gown that had been, by great good fortune, packed in Johanna’s luggage.
Xenia realised that she must have bought it in Paris and had doubtless meant to take it to Prussen where the Ambassador of that country, who was now sitting beside her, had told Johanna that the marria
