Long Live the King

Authors: Fay Weldon

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“Accommodation for his Grace the Duke of Marlborough had now been made in the Offices of the Lord Great Chamberlain in Buck House, the Marquess of Ancaster being even less busy than usual. It was a rather splendid room overlooking the Gallery: nicely if rather eccentrically furnished as a drawing room, with white lace curtains, plump crimson chairs and sofas, some darkish landscapes of rocks and storm clouds, heavily framed ornate mirrors and a couple of potted palm trees, but the whole dominate...d by a great mahogany desk, as if everything that had not fitted in the rest of the house had ended up here because there was nowhere else for it to go. A small light voice told him to come in, and he found Consuelo seated behind the desk, rather briskly sorting papers, her plentiful black hair piled on top of the little head, fixed by a couple of Spanish-looking combs, and her frail body and slender neck dwarfed by the size of the desk.‘Oh Consuelo,’ Robert said, ‘I hoped to see you, but I thought Sunny would be here.’‘Sunny is off lunching with William Waldorf Astor, who is immensely rich and immensely powerful and even more miserable than Sunny, but we need him on our side because of his magazines, so at this very minute I daresay Sunny will be chomping through roast beef and Yorkshire pudding at the Carlton Club.MoreLess Read More Read Less