The Prince Commands: Being Sundry Adventures of Michael Karl, Sometime Crown Prince & Pretender to the Thrown of Morvania
“he corrected himself, “tell me how you became a quick change artist, Werewolf to American to King. I don't like stories which begin in the middle and—”“Run both ways?” supplied his cousin. “Well, all this mess is due to the mismanagement of the late but not lamented King, our ungracious grandparent. He was a domestic tyrant of no mean order, modeled himself on the father of Frederick the Great. I won't go so far as to say that he threw plates at the heads of Princes of the Blood or tore their c...lothes off their backs, but he did his best to make this Fortress a merry little hell for any one who was unfortunate enough to be a relation of his.“He bullied his wife to death and then started in on his sons. One morning he tramped into breakfast and jumped on Prince Eric, your father. Eric, of course, was a younger son, and he had no desire for the throne anyway, so he waited until the old man paused for breath and then gave him as good as he got, ending up by declaring that Prince or no Prince he was going to America and he'd like to see his father try to stop him.“The King sat there in a sort of stunned silence like a cat who had been badly bitten by a mouse it was playing with.MoreLess
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