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Princess Diana never let the crown take her last miracle.
Born in the bruised twilight of a crumbling marriage, Madelaine is raised beside her mother in quiet European exile-playgrounds in Geneva, bedtime lullabies sung by the most famous voice on earth, birthday cakes smuggled past paparazzi like contraband.
She knows the weight of Windsor blood because she's held Diana's hand through every nightmare headline; she knows the taste of normal because "Maddy from the café" is the name they give at corner bakeries where no one looks twice.
Then August 31, 1997: the crash, the flowers, the silence.
One moment she has a mother and a future stitched from whispered promises; the next she has a new surname, a passport with the wrong date, and a godmother -turned-aunt taking care of her.
Seventeen years later the world still mourns a saint, but Maddy mourns a mom-until a viral tweet stitches together grainy CCTV and a prom-night selfie, crowning her the ghost no one knew survived.
Forced out of hiding, she's dragged back to the gilded cage Diana fled, where every corridor echoes with her mother's laughter and every smile hides a knife.
To survive the palace that murdered the woman who taught her to be free, Maddy must decide: dismantle the monarchy from within-or light the last fuse her mother left burning and watch it all burn with her.