But sleep eluded him and he found himself thinking of Yvette and what she had said about his future bride. He wondered if she had been prophetic.
All the anger that he had felt since the moment he had learnt the Queen of England wished him to marry one of her relatives came surging over him like a flood tide that could not be controlled.
He had always intended to marry sooner or later, and was well aware that it was expected of him to breed sons to carry on the Monarchy.
But he had not expected to be dictated to or find himself in a position where it was almost impossible to refuse the directives of a foreign power.
But his country needed England’s assistance both commercially and politically, and the price England had extorted for her favours was that one of Queen Victoria’s descendan
