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And just before Christmas, after a devil of a year, nor did she want it to be.
‘Certainly, ma’am.’ Rozie closed the laptop and left the Boss to get on with her day.
The Queen accompanied Mrs Maddox on a quick tour of the house to check that everything had been set up to her satisfaction, which as always, under this housekeeper’s care, it had been. Afterwards, she was drawn back to the saloon, with its inviting smell of woodsmoke. Most of Sandringham’s rooms were quite small and intimate by royal standards, but the saloon was designed to impress.
Among plentiful photographs of family, the ornaments were mainly horse bronzes and silver statuettes.
She had hoped to distract herself with the picture, but her mind inevitably drifted back to Ned St Cyr. He was two years older than Charles, which would make him seventy now. Three-score years and ten, she thought. A biblical lifetime, although now one could easily live to a hundred, as witnessed by her own mother and all the centenary birthday telegrams one sent these days.
Ned, when he visited the next time, took his scolding with good grace.





