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Dinner was a formal affair that left Piper feeling hopelessly simple and unsophisticated. Her hodgepodge dress that she had stitched together from remnants did not in any way fit in at the elegant royal table.
She had reluctantly left Liam with a woman who referred to herself as Hettie, the palace nanny. The gentle older woman seemed caring and maternal as she cooed and rocked the baby in an antique wooden rocking chair, which had probably been used to rock a century’s worth of royal babies to sleep. Piper wondered what the nanny normally did with all of her time at work, since Liam was currently the only baby in the castle.
The massive royal table was set with a fine set of delicate china emblazoned with the royal crest in gold leaf. There were so many crystal goblets and heavy piece
