A Royal Love Match

\"At The Battle of Worcester in 1651, Prince Charles with thirteenthousand troops, both English and Scottish, is heavily defeated by Oliver Cromwell and flees to France. Clive More escapes thebattlefield to a friendly house and is saved from Cromwell? s men bythe Nanny of Alissa aged nine. Nanny disguises him as a girl and hides him in her bedroom. After the Prince is restored to the throne as King Charles II in 1660, Alissa, her father the Earl of Dalwaynnie, her stepmother and her stepsister Nancy, move to London. The King, grateful for the Earl? s support, gives them Apartments at the Royal Palace of Whitehall. Clive More, who is now the Marquis of Morelanton, comes down from the North. He and the King are the sameage and spent a great deal of time together including playing tennisat which they both excel. The Countess, the new wife of the Earl of Dalwaynnie, is determined that her daughter Nancy should marry Clivenow he is a Marquis and contrives to keep him away from Alissa, whohas grown in the nine years since they last met into an outstandingbeauty. How the Countess intrigues with a strange man called Lord Pronett to remove Alissa from the Court and away from Clive. How Nancy helps Clive save her. And how they find love and happiness is alltold in this exciting historical romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.\"