A SCANDAL IN WAITING
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Complete Sat, Sep 12, 202020m
"A woman on her death-bed, lied undignified. Upon her death, her stature was deemed to be nothing more than a bony mass buried under the ground, disdained, stained in purposeful disregard by those who'd walk by her grave. Who'd ever remember an unchaste soul, albeit misjudged when alive. It was my fault, all of it."
A historical fiction about the scandal that shook all of Britain in 1839.
Lady Flora Hastings, the lady in waiting to Queen Victoria's mother the Duchess of Kent is accused of having an affair with the Duchess' favourite Sir John Conroy. Witness her descent into madness as she copes with the rumours and learns of the most vital step that one must take in order to truly self actualise oneself.
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