The Hazards of Hunting a Duke

Want to know how I came up with the idea for the Desperate Debutantes series? I was watching the Charles and Camilla nuptials…okay, honestly, I was watching the hats (what is it with British women and those hats?)…but I wondered what would have happened if Charles had actually fallen in love with Diana after they married like she so desperately wanted. Would he be standing there marrying Camilla?

I should back up and tell you that I am such a celebrity news junkie and Anglophile that I have read most of the books written about Diana and Charles. I wanted to believe in the fairy tale like everyone else, but life is rarely a fairy tale, blast it all. In the case of the Windsors, Charles and his family looked for the most suitable match to be the future Queen of England, and lots of women with pedigreed blood lines were presented as possibilities. Even one of Diana’s sisters was considered. It has been the practice of the aristocracy since the stone ages to take great care not to muck up their bloodlines with people like us, and Charles did what he was supposed to do. Diana was really the one who made a mess of everything by falling in love.