A Royal Affair

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Call Number: Mystery / Montclair, Allison, Adult Book / Fiction / Mystery / Historical / Montclair, Allison
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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"More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair's delightful second novel, A Royal Affair. In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary to handle the growing demand. Unfortunately, they don't yet have the necessary means. So when a woman arrives - a cousin of Gwen's - with an interesting and quite remunerative proposition, they two of them are all ears. The cousin, one Lady Matheson, works for the Queen in "some capacity" and is in need of some discreet investigation. It seems that the Princess Elizabeth has developed feelings for a dashing Greek prince and a blackmail note has arrived, alluding to some potentially damaging information about said prince. Wanting to keep this out of the palace gossip circles, but also needing to find out what skeletons might lurk in the prince's closet, the palace has quietly turned to Gwen and Iris. Without causing a stir, the two of them must now find out what secrets lurk in the prince's past, before his engagement to the future Queen of England is announced. And there's more at stake than the future of the Empire - there is their potential new office that lies in the balance"--Provided by publisher.

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Fun and Fabulous! submitted by LAArnsdorf on August 6, 2023, 9:23pm This was an interesting story! In the end, it was too complicated. The Princess Alice plotline was complicated enough without the addition of the current Greek political machinations and Iris's links to the spy world. I learned a lot about Princess Alice, someone I had never considered before.

In the first book, I found Gwen to be a bit boring and stuffy until the very end of the book. This story really developed her character, and I loved who she became. Iris was great fun, as expected.

And what a fun and fabulous ending!