It was at the Battle of Crecy in 1346 that the Black Prince won both his spurs and the famous ostrich plumes that adorned his seals as Prince of Wales.
Young girls when they were presented to the Monarch had worn them ever since then.
“There won’t be anyone as beautiful as you are at the ball, miss, I’m real certain of that,” the maid went on.
Ilouka smiled her thanks, but she was thinking that there was one man who would never admire her except for her looks, but she wanted him above all things to admire her character, her personality and her mind.
‘Forget him! Forget him! Forget him!’ her feet seemed to say as she went lightly down the stairs.
As they drove to Buckingham Palace in Sir James’s smart London carriage, she thought that the wheels were repeating the same words constantly
