And now we both blushed, because things like changing one’s garments should not be discussed among a Queen and one of her subjects.

Once more for Britain,� I said to the empty room. I might not be the Queen everyone wanted me to be, but I was intelligent and fully capable of breaking the code.

In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

My station has barely recovered from the massacre, and we have not held my formal coronation, not to mention the fact I am only eighteen years of age and have no parent present. How on earth do people expect me to find a husband in all of this nonsense?