Long Live the King

A Historical Fiction Novel by Fay Weldon

Book 2 of the Love & Inheritance Series

Subgenres:

Edwardian,
Family Saga,
Upstairs-Downstairs

Published 2013

Length 351 pages

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Edwardian manor intrigue with upstairs-downstairs family and staff drama
Heiresses navigating British aristocracy and prickly mother-in-law dynamics
Runaway adventures with spiritualists and brushes with royalty

Publisher Description

From the award-winning writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the second novel in a trilogy about an earl's family and his servants in the early twentieth century.

As 1901 comes to an end, there is much to be grateful for: The Dilberne fortune has been restored, and the grand Dilberne Court, with its one hundred rooms, has been saved. Lord Robert's son, Arthur, is happily married to Chicago heiress, Minnie, who is pregnant and trying to come to terms with her new role as lady of the manor, and her charming but controlling mother-in-law, Lady Isobel.

As Lord Robert and Lady Isobel get caught up in the preparations of the coronation of Edward VII, they debate the future of their recently orphaned niece, Adela. Isobel and Minnie want to take her in; Robert and Arthur do not. While they argue, Adela runs away and joins a travelling group of spiritualists and has a life-saving run-in with the king.

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