CHAPTER 4“Her Highness said to me, ‘we must find someone beautiful, well-bred and intelligent to help Prince Hedwig rule over Meldenstein’,” the Baroness related, talking quickly and gesticulating with her hands as she spoke, “and then Her Highness exclaimed, ‘I have thought of just the right person, the daughter of my old friend and flirt, Sir Horace Lambourn! I remember Camilla as a child, she was an entrancing creature.’”
The Baroness gave a little laugh.
“And so you must see, my dear Miss Lambourn, that is how great events take place in Royal circles, just a private conversation between Her Highness and myself and all the pageantry of an historic and spectacular marriage begins.”
Camilla did not answer.
The Baroness had been talking ever since they left home and Camilla, intent on
