The Lady of My Choosing
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  • Reads 214
  • Votes 42
  • Parts 38
  • Time 2h 53m
Complete, First published Nov 04, 2021
"If my father were a chancellor, how easy it would be, the lovely Lady Caroline would be a proper wife, you see. But my father was a servant, and my mother same as he, so the lady of my choosing is a world away from me. That's how it is and how it was and how it always shall be."

From the 1976 film The Slipper and the Rose. The Lady Caroline de Montague has been chosen as Lady-in-Waiting to the elderly Dowager Queen. She fits easily into her new role at the Palace of Euphrania but finds herself falling in love with John Stewart, Prince Edward's companion and bodyguard. She is a lady and he is a servant and so the situation is hopeless. Or is it?

All characters and the Slipper and the Rose story belong to David Paradine Productions. Some conversation is taken from the film and also belongs to David Paradine Productions.
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