Queen Charlotte is on her deathbed and wants to right a wrong for her young friend Sheena. She makes her son Prince George promise that Sheena's husband will do his duty by her, or there would be hell to pay. The Prince gives Adam the Duke of Marlborough till the end of the Holiday to make his wife happy. Adam did not know his wife they were officially married when she was four days only and he was five. When she came to live with his family five years ago he left to avoid her now they wanted him to take up the mantle of husband within a fortnight? Sheena had spent five years working for the crown overseas avoiding her husband. Her mission in France was over and it was time to come home to England, and start a new life. She had decided she would divorce Adam they did not know each other and he was a notorious rake he had more mistresses than he had money. Then the queen is dying and her last wish for Sheena was to be happy with Adam. Was this even possible for two strangers who had been married for 20 years to learn to love one another?