Morganatic marriages in Royal Families were often very successful. His highness Prince Alexander of Hesse eloped in 1851 with Julie Countess Van Hanke, a girl who was not even noble. She was made Her Serene Highness Princess of Battenburg and was the founder of the great and glorious Royal Family of Battenburg ?? Mountbatten. In […]
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was one of the most successful writers of romance novels of all time, with estimated worldwide sales of one billion copies in thirty-six languages. Cartland published her first novel, Jigsaw, in 1923, aslightly naughty society thriller that became a bestseller. She quickly became one of the United Kingdom??s most popular […]
Sir George Stanton dies leaving his four beautiful daughters and their brother Nicky, the new baronet, with no money. However, Nicky must finish his time at Oxford, so to help him Larisa decides to become a governess in France. The violent passions which Larisa finds beneath the perfection of Chateau Valmont are told in this […]