CHAPTER TWOAll the way down from London Robbie was trying to work out how he could explain it all to his sister.
He realised that, living in the country and being so young, she knew very little about the Social world. Also little, if anything, about men.
It was thus very difficult to put into words what he was thinking and feeling about the Prince of Wales or how much it meant to him to be one of H.R.H.’s friends.
In previous years there had been an unwritten law that whatever happened or whatever the Prince of Wales did, it was on no account to be known to the newspapers – the parties that he attended which were his joy and delight were to be kept as quiet as possible.
To amuse himself the Prince had to make up for the long empty years of his boyhood when he was guarded and protected
