“The night Her Royal Highness disappeared,” the Equerry replied, “there was a formal State Dinner given by Her Majesty for His Royal Highness the Prince Gadelov of Saralovia. It was no secret to members of the Court that the Prince had asked Her Majesty the Queen to provide him with an English bride.”
Kelvin drew in his breath.
He now knew why Vasila had been so frightened and why she had run away.
He had heard a great deal about Prince Gadelov and his interest in beautiful women, in fact he remembered the previous year that there had been quite a scandal about his behaviour in Paris.
One of the infamous cocottes had taken a King’s ransom off him while he was enjoying her favours.
He was thinking back to when he had last seen the Prince and remembered the unsavoury stories that had b
