Chapter 30: Teaser Tuesday 24.11.2009

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.
• Be careful not to include spoilers!
• Share the title & author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participiants can add the book to their to be read lists if they like your teasers!
  

My teaser this week is from a book I mentionded yesterday in my Mailbox Monday post: Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen. This is a humorous mystery set in Britain in 1932 and featuring Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie Rannoch, 34th in line for the British throne.

The teaser is from the very first page, where Lady Georgiana, as she is called, tells us what the two disadvantages of being a minor royal are. This is the disadvantage number two:

"Apparently the only acceptable destiny for a young female member of the house of Windsor is to marry into another of the royal houses that still seem to litter Europe, even though there are precious few reigning monarchs these days. It seems that even a very minor Windsor like myself is a desirable commodity for those wishing a tenuous alliance with Britain at this unsettled time."