Lady Louisa's Christmas Knight (2012)
“His Royal Highness made it sound as if Hamburg, of all the toadying ciphers at Carlton House, was the most offensive. He wasn’t, but the little man took perverse pleasure in withstanding royal abuse. The Regent found it easy to oblige him on this freezing, blustery, useless day.
“I do most abjectly beg Your Royal Highness’s pardon for imposing, but the year will soon draw to a close, and there is the matter of—”
Prinny waved a hand unadorned with rings, the weather having caused the roy...al case of rheumatism to take a nasty turn. “The blighted honors list and the peerages. Do you think of nothing else, Humbug?”
“You pay me to think of little else, Your Royal Highness, and as a symbol of the realm’s grandeur and enduring nobility, there is nothing that compares—”
“Stow it, man, or I’ll pay you even less than I do.”
This apparently crossed the line from coveted royal abuse to sincere threat.MoreLess
“I do most abjectly beg Your Royal Highness’s pardon for imposing, but the year will soon draw to a close, and there is the matter of—”
Prinny waved a hand unadorned with rings, the weather having caused the roy...al case of rheumatism to take a nasty turn. “The blighted honors list and the peerages. Do you think of nothing else, Humbug?”
“You pay me to think of little else, Your Royal Highness, and as a symbol of the realm’s grandeur and enduring nobility, there is nothing that compares—”
“Stow it, man, or I’ll pay you even less than I do.”
This apparently crossed the line from coveted royal abuse to sincere threat.MoreLess
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