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The Queen Saves The King

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When Queen Victoria is called upon to arrange a marriage for the dashing King Alexius of Vultarnia to save him and his country from the predatory Russians, the adventurous and beautiful Pythia takes the place of her cousin, Princess Erina, and heads for the small Balkan country in a British Battleship.

            Princess Erina has just fallen in love with a good-looking Peruvian and Pythia could not allow her happiness to be torn from her for cold political strategy.

            On her arrival in Vultarnia she receives a warm reception and she is determined to win the hearts of her new subjects and the heart of their cosmopolitan worldly King.

            The King is surprised and impressed by his new wife and sees how much he could learn from her. But a Russian plot threatens to throw this popular new marriage into jeopardy and Pythia must think quickly in order to save the King and the beautiful country of Vultarnia.

            Will King Alexius fall in love with Pythia or remain attached to his glamorous and seductive Russian mistress?

             Will Pythia be able to stop a sinister plot to capture the King before it is too late?

            And will the King discover Pythia’s true identity and that she is not Royal?

            Find out in ‘The Queen Saves the King’, an exciting and moving romance from the incomparable Barbara Cartland.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE
AUTHOR’S NOTEThe situation described in this book in 1874 merely anticipated what happened the next year when Serbia declared war on Turkey and thousands of Russian volunteers poured into St. Petersburg. The Czar Alexander had no wish for a war, but he was pushed into it by the Czarina and her ladies who fluttered about referring endlessly to Russia’s Holy mission. Finally the Czar began to believe it and in November 1876 the Grand Duke Nicholas started his march with a huge Army towards Constantinople. The conflict lasted for nine months and took a terrible toll of life. In one battle alone the Russians lost twenty-five thousand men without gaining an inch of ground. The Army was, however, within six miles of Constantinople when finally Queen Victoria, who was frantically agitated by this time, suddenly persuaded the Cabinet to send Admiral Hornby with six ironclad Battleships to move into the Dardanelles to remind Russia that Britain would not stand aside for ever. Russia was obliged to retreat and a Treaty was hammered out at the Congress of Berlin in 1878. What was more important than anything else was that Russia had been denied access to the Mediterranean, which she had hoped to reach through the Balkans back door.

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