As she became older she began to realise that Her Royal Highness was completely adored and idolised by the whole country. She was just so beautiful, pure, radiant and gracious that the public considered her their fairy Princess. Because Lanthia had lived a very cloistered life in the country, she had no idea of what the Marquis and many others in the know understood only too well. It was that Princess Alexandra had won for herself a popularity never previously accorded to a Royal Consort, a great deal of it being due to the fact that the Prince of Wales was known to be unfaithful. As Lanthia swept to the floor in a deep curtsy, she thought that, as she had once read, that the Princess looked like ‘a fairy doll on top of England’s Christmas Tree’. The Prince came forward to greet her saying, “You are now looking even prettier than last night, Miss Grenville!” Lanthia smiled at him and the Prince introduced her to his other guests.
