The Wonderful Dream by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782138020
Publisher: Barbara Cartland Ebooks ltd
Published: 2016-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

Claudia found to her disappointment that after breakfast the Prince took the Marquis off to see his horses.

She was not invited to go with them.

She found, however, when Princess Louisa joined her that she had arranged to take her into the City.

Claudia was anxious to see the sights of Seville as she had read so much about them.

Yet it would not be the same as being with the Marquis and seeing the Prince’s horses.

Princess Louisa had now accepted her as a friend and she talked quite intimately of herself and her family.

“I want to be married,” she admitted, “and as quickly as possible. In fact, I had hoped, as Papa did, that the Marquis could be my husband.”

“But surely,” Claudia questioned, “you don’t want to have an arranged marriage?”

The Princess looked at her in surprise.

“All our marriages are arranged and only when I am married will I be free.”

She realised that Claudia was looking puzzled and explained,

“At the moment I have these Ladies-in-Waiting with me always. They listen to everything I say and never stop telling me what I must not do.”

She paused for a moment before she went on,

“You must be aware that it was only by making a scene that I have been allowed to drive alone with you today. Even so two of them are following behind us in another carriage.”

“I agree it must be very tiresome,” Claudia agreed sympathetically.

“It’s far worse than that,” the Princess groaned. “I can never be alone with a man or talk to him without their being present.”

“And to be sometimes unsupervised is, I suppose, what you really want,” Claudia said.

“Of course I do,” the Princess replied. “Now I am going to let you into a secret, I have been meeting one of Papa’s aides-de-camp and it is very exciting!”

“Will that not get you into trouble?” Claudia asked tentatively.

“Papa would be furious if he found out and the aide-de-camp would certainly be dismissed. But we meet in secret places and when he kisses me it’s wonderful!”

Claudia looked at her in amazement.

“You have let one of the aides-de-camp kiss you?” she asked. “Surely that is very wrong?”

“Spaniards have passionate natures,” the Princess explained, “and I don’t really think that an Englishman would suit me. But Papa knew that the Marquis is very important and, of course, he has wonderful horses.”

Claudia thought for a moment.

Then she commented,

“I have always understood that Spanish Royalty are very particular about who their daughters marry. I would have expected your father to choose a Royal Prince for you.”

The Princess laughed.

“He tried to find one, but it was very difficult. He then discovered, which pleased him very much, that your husband’s great-great-grandmother was a Princess of Leichenburg.”

“So that makes him a suitable match for a Princess!” Claudia remarked.

She was really thinking it out for herself, but the Princess replied,

“Of course it does! I only hope that the Marquis is very loving and exactly what you want in a man.”

Claudia thought that she could not answer this and the

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