Amanda Scott (50 page)

Lord Chancellor:
Suppose a young nobleman of fourteen is trepanned [lured or entrapped] into marriage by a woman moment would that be a valid marriage, and carry a Dukedom and large estates to the issue?

Lord Advocate of Scotland:
It would.

Lord Chancellor:
Does it require any domicile in Scotland for one minute more than the time the marriage is performing to make it a valid marriage?

Lord Advocate:
No.

Lord Chancellor:
Are you aware that such marriages (between a fourteen-year-old Duke and an English prostitute) would be, by all the courts of England and by the House of Lords, dealing with the legitimacy of the heir to the Dukedom, held a perfectly indisputably valid marriage?

Lord Advocate:
I presume the House of Lords would hold it so.

Irresistible stuff, as I am sure you will agree. I just hope the story did it justice, and that you were entertained. That was, as always, the author’s primary intent.

Sincerely,

Amanda Scott

P.S. If you enjoyed
The Bawdy Bride
, please look for
Dangerous Games
, coming in June of 1996. The heroine is Melissa Seacourt, one of the children from
Dangerous Illusions.

*
Patricia Courtney Otto,
Daughters of the British Aristocracy,
Stanford University (Doctoral Dissertation), 1974, p. 79.

A fourth-generation Californian of Scottish descent, Amanda Scott is the author of more than fifty romantic novels, many of which appeared on the
USA Today
bestseller list. Her Scottish heritage and love of history (she received undergraduate and graduate degrees in history at Mills College and California State University, San Jose, respectively) inspired her to write historical fiction. Credited by
Library Journal
with starting the Scottish romance subgenre, Scott has also won acclaim for her sparkling Regency romances. She is the recipient of the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award (for
Lord Abberley’s Nemesis
, 1986) and the RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award. She lives in central California with her husband.

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