The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight


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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight


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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight


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The story of Princess Priscilla, who is frustrated with her position in the Grand Duchy of Lothen-Kunitz. The Court seems vulgar, the courtiers time-serving, her days dreary and pointless. These feelings are encouraged by Fritzing, her tutor and Duchy librarian. When finally an eligible Prince offers marriage, she abandons her life of luxury. With the help of Fritzing and a maid she escapes to a Somerset village. However she has difficulty adapting: she does not know the value of money and expects deference from those ignorant of her royal status. This leads to misunderstanding and upsets the life of the village.










The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight


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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight


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Her Grand Ducal Highness the Princess Priscilla of Lothen-Kunitz was up to the age of twenty-one a most promising young lady. She was not only poetic in appearance beyond the habit of princesses but she was also of graceful and appropriate behaviour. She did what she was told; or, more valuable, she did what was expected of her without being told. Her father, in his youth and middle age a fiery man, now an irritable old gentleman who liked good food and insisted on strictest etiquette, was proud of her on those occasions when she happened to cross his mind. Her mother, by birth an English princess of an originality uncomfortable and unexpected in a royal lady that continued to the end of her life to crop up at disconcerting moments, died when Priscilla was sixteen. Her sisters, one older and one younger than herself, were both far less pleasing to look upon than she was, and much more difficult to manage; yet each married a suitable prince and each became a credit to her House, while as for Priscilla,—well, as for Priscilla, I propose to describe her dreadful conduct.