Chapter 4The Duke waited in the magnificent salon of his Parisian house for Anoushka to come down to dinner.
Once again he was wearing the elegant evening clothes in which he had been married, but without his decorations and the Order of the Garter.
As he sipped a glass of champagne, he thought that he had certainly had an unusual wedding and very unlike what he had always anticipated he would have.
The marriage he had planned with Cleodel would have been one of the events of the Season with St George’s Church packed to overflowing with the elite of the country, and leading the distinguished guests present would have been the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Queen would have sent a representative and there would have been members of many European Royal families present to make it such
