The Magnificent Marriage – Barbara Cartland

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Daughter of the Marquess of Heywood, the ravishing Dorinda has royal blood in her veins. It is in this capacity that Queen Victoria orders her to undertake a long journey to marry the ruler of Greznov, a small principality threatened by Russian imperialism. Dorinda bravely complies but despairs. Marrying a stranger, living in a foreign country where she doesn’t even know the language! The ordeal is all the more difficult because she will be welcomed there by Rupert of Mansfield, with whom she has secretly loved since childhood. While passing through Florence, Dorinda meets her cousin Mary, who looks exactly like her and who, like her, is also threatened with a forced marriage. A brilliant idea then germinates in her mind…