Female DelightsPrologue Families
Prince Abdullah had acquired a second wife in London when he made Madeleine Lascaux pregnant in the year after he married his first wife, Amelia, whom he had renamed Princess Zubeydeh. Madeleine was the insipid little daughter of a French diplomat who, at 22 was already considering herself 'left on the shelf'. He met her at an early evening reception in the Kobekistani Embassy; he was bored and she was the only female there that he did not already know. Most of the others had already been...