She was now well aware that it was just a clever way of removing the Earl of Haugton from Windsor Castle and preventing him from taking Lord Linwood’s and Lord Carlsby’s place beside the Queen.
‘It’s still ‘wheels within wheels’,’ she thought, ‘and I am just a pawn in their hands.’
She could easily understand, having overheard the secret conversation between the two older men what they were up to.
If the Earl of Haugton would become a friend and a confidant of the Prince of Wales, the Queen would no longer believe in him.
Better still, if he was married and far away on his honeymoon, he would not be in a position to continue his nefarious influence on Her Majesty.
It was a clever and well thought out plan.
Flavia’s father had told her,
“It’s just a small private party, but I have en
