CHAPTER FOURThe Marquis duly arrived at Marlborough House at precisely the time he had been invited.
He was not the first.
There were a number of carriages outside and many coming up the drive behind him.
He was admitted, as had happened to him before, by a Scottish ghillie resplendent in Highland dress.
Inside two scarlet-coated powdered footmen took his hat and evening cape from him.
They were then passed on to the Major Domo in a short red coat with a band of leather across his shoulders.
A page in a dark blue coat and black trousers next escorted him up to the first floor.
As he reached it, the Marquis had a fleeting glance at several maid-servants, all of them in neat uniforms with lace caps on their heads.
He knew that it was their job to make the Prince of Wales’s residence
