The fun in this light and easy read is multifaceted, from the inside view of the snobbery and pretension of upper-crust British society to the often amusing consequences of Georgie’s efforts to start a domestic agency (in which she is the only domestic). But a summons by the indomitable Queen Mary, her cousin by marriage, to spy on her philandering son, Prince Edward (yes, the same one who later abdicated the throne for his American divorcee), the troubling appearance of a dead body in the bathtub of the Rannoch London house, and some disturbing evidence that someone wants her body dead, too, keep foiling Georgie’s efforts to make an honest living.
Georgie must flee her brother’s castle in Scotland to escape a forced marriage to “Fish-Face,” an insufferable Prince of Romania. As a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she happens to be thirty-fourth in line to the throne, poorer than dirt, and, as she informs us, bred only to marry “some lunatic, buck-toothed, chinless, spineless, and utterly awful European royal, thus cementing ties with a future enemy.”
Her Royal Spyness begins what we hope will be a prolific historical cozy mystery series featuring Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Glen Garry and Rannoch, and fondly known as Georgie to her friends.
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