The Captive of Kensington Palace (45 page)

The Duchess was about to reply but she did not. There was something in Victoria’s manner that forbade it.

And with her hair hanging about her shoulders, her dressing-gown buttoned about her little figure, her feet thrust into slippers she went into the sitting-room.

At the sight of her, they knelt.

‘Your Majesty,’ they said.

And so she knew that she was no longer the Princess Victoria but Queen of England.

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