![]() Sleeping over at the Palace the night of the murder were not only Bertie's male cronies, but their wives and personal servants. The problem is, there is a surfeit of suspects. ![]() Terrified that word might leak out and cause a highly embarrassing scandal, the Palace calls on Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch to solve the murder, quickly and discreetly. Nothing unusual about that, except that this time, one of the women is found the next morning in the linen cupboard - not sleeping, but slashed and very dead, having bled all over Victoria's monogrammed sheets. The aging Prince of Wales, who, like our own Prince Charles, has been waiting all his life to inherit the throne from Mummy, has spent a typically debauched evening with some male cronies, topping off hours of drinking by inviting a few prostitutes into the Palace. It is late one night in Buckingham Palace, and Queen Victoria's eldest son, affectionately known as Bertie, has been up to his usual pranks. ![]()
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