A Scandal to Remember
Chapter One
London, England
April 1851
"So, where've you stashed that princess of
yours? You can't just keep her to yourself, old
man."
"You know how bloody careless Drew is, Ross. He's
probably gone and lost her."
"Sorry to disappoint you, Jared," Drew said, wishing
once again that his meddling friends hadn't come to
the duke's ball tonight. "But I have yet to meet the little
virago."
"Andrew Chase, behave yourself!" Kate had been
standing peaceably near her starry-eyed husband, but
managed to look away from Jared long enough to give
Drew one of her chiding scowls. "Princess Caroline is
hardly a virago. I've met her myself; she's lovely."
"Begging your pardon, Kate," Drew said as he ad-justed his neck cloth, "but I've never met a royal who
wasn't a pain in the ... trousers."
Ross laughed and whispered overloud, "Word
around town is that she's stunning."
"Great." Drew snorted, not at all pleased to hear
this. "Royal and beautiful."
Not to mention vain, arrogant, demanding. Bred in
the bone.
"Husband, dear," Kate said, grinning up at Jared
in that bountiful way of hers, hooking her finger into
his lapel and drawing him closer, "if you and Ross
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