The couture accident bits are described well and make you laugh. This light read does have its moments though. It is only when Georgie starts her business airing the London homes of country-based gentry that things begin to look up. Too much time is spent on stressing Georgie’s and Binkie’s dire financial straits. Yes, he is boring, in spite of the Austenian name he is endowed with. But that happens only at the end of Chapter 11, just when you’re about to give up on the insipid romance between Georgie and the uninteresting Darcy. And that really perks your interest in the whole proceedings. Then the dead body of an unpleasant man shows up in their bathtub, and the police find her and her brother guilty.

But now she is forced to admit, that there is someone among her circle of acquaintances, who is out to kill her.

After all, Georgie has always been accident prone. When accidents begin to happen to her, no one finds it suspicious. In London, she finds herself wholly incapable of performing simple tasks such as lighting a fire or getting the boiler to work. When her brother’s marriage and her sister-in-law's unsympathetic nature, and the lack of any suitors or marriage prospects, forces her to think about her life, she moves to London to get away from it all. Georgie cooks up a story about a friend in London needing her help in making wedding preparations. Her Royal Majesty, the Queen of England, desires a marital alliance between Prince Siegfried of Romania and Georgie, her cousin, 34th in line to the throne, as part of Britain’s strategy to cement ties with potential enemies in Europe. And then, she will talk about sex and admit to not getting any, and all this in 1932. And then to make things better, for someone, who is a minor royal, she admits to being clumsy and unladylike, with a tendency to, gasp!, sweat.

You know that the heroine of Her Royal Spyness is decidedly unique and singular when she admits, in the second chapter, that she had a life-changing experience while on the commode.

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