CHAPTER FIVEEver since she was small Lanthia had heard so much about Alexandra, the Princess of Wales. As she became older she began to realise that Her Royal Highness was completely adored and idolised by the whole country. She was just so beautiful, pure, radiant and gracious that the public considered her their fairy Princess. Because Lanthia had lived a very cloistered life in the country, she had no idea of what the Marquis and many others in the know understood only too well. It was that Princess Alexandra had won for herself a popularity never previously accorded to a Royal Consort, a great deal of it being due to the fact that the Prince of Wales was known to be unfaithful. As Lanthia swept to the floor in a deep curtsy, she thought that, as she had once read, that the Princess