The Autobiography of the Queen (2013)
“Used as she was to her name being used for all manner of pubs and unsuitable souvenirs, the words Windsor Village, inscribed on what was clearly a piece of flotsam washed up in a recent storm, seemed an unnecessary reminder of the family – and in particular the Castle – which she had left on the other side of the world. She concentrated instead on the notice, clearly by the same signwriter, which proclaimed Rum Shop on the rickety building where she had been told to wait by the ‘escort’ provide...d. Like most of the equerries and courtiers she had known, Ford was someone with no idea of the needs of a royal personage: uncouth, unpleasantly smarmy, and on the verge of being totally uneducated, Austin Ford had not made a good first impression.
Now the sun sank in the sky with a rapidity to which the Queen was not accustomed. Apart from a single bulb hanging in the dining room of the nearly-finished restaurant, there would be no light soon. The Queen, feeling the wings of the first mosquito of the evening as it skimmed her cheek, began to fidget, a habit long ago trained out of her by the royal governess Crawfie – and, thinking for a moment of a far-distant childhood before Crawfie had dared to sell her innocent story to the press, the polite, firm girl she had been returned to show herself to the old lady abandoned here in an empty mock-village by a darkening sea.MoreLess
Now the sun sank in the sky with a rapidity to which the Queen was not accustomed. Apart from a single bulb hanging in the dining room of the nearly-finished restaurant, there would be no light soon. The Queen, feeling the wings of the first mosquito of the evening as it skimmed her cheek, began to fidget, a habit long ago trained out of her by the royal governess Crawfie – and, thinking for a moment of a far-distant childhood before Crawfie had dared to sell her innocent story to the press, the polite, firm girl she had been returned to show herself to the old lady abandoned here in an empty mock-village by a darkening sea.MoreLess
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