How does one light a fire and where does milk come from? So she starts a house cleaning service.
Not an easy task for one who has never done a thing for herself. He certainly can’t afford to go on keeping Georgie after she has come out into society.Īt a loose end, she bolts to London and tries living on her own. Her brother is saddled with horrendous death duties and can barely keep the Scottish estate running. Her father gambled away the last of his fortune. She is too far from the line of succession to get any public money. My character, Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, aka Georgie, is a cousin of King George V of England, but she’s penniless and trying to survive on her own as an ordinary person in London in 1932. However, this is royal family life turned upside down.
I would have a chance to poke fun at the British class system and chuckle to myself as I wrote.Īnd so Her Royal Spyness was born. Trying to solve a murder would indeed be a challenge, and fun.
What if my sleuth was a sheltered, upper-class British girl in the 1930s-what if she was a member of the royal family, not allowed to work or go out unchaperoned, and destined to marry some chinless, spineless, buck-toothed and utterly awful European royal. I kept toying with serial killers, child molesters, and terrorists and finally asked myself whether I wanted to spend six months in such company. My new book came into being because my editor had been urging me to write a big, dark standalone. Why did the colonies fight so hard to get rid of a king, only to spend the next 200 years wishing they had one? Well, maybe the fantasy of royalty is better than the reality. I’m always fascinated by the American fascination with royalty.
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