title: The Prince and His Lady: The Love Story of the Duke of Kent and Madame de St Laurent
author:  Mollie Gillen 
description: "Enjoyable, fascinating reading." (Lorna Inness <i>Halifax Chronicle-Herald</i>)<br /><br />"A major biographical work." (<i>Montreal Star</i>)<br /><br />"One of Canada's most intriguing love stories." (<i>Simcoe Reformer</i>)
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  At The Duke’s Service
  
  By
  
  Carole Mortimer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  St. Claire House, Mayfair, London, 1784
  
  ―Would you kindly explain who you are and what you mean by coming here
  uninvited and taking me from my dinner guests?‖
  
  Miss Angelina Hawkins rose slowly to her feet as a tall, arrogantly forceful
  man strode into the cavernous entrance hall where the butler had requested she
  wait whilst he informed his employer of her arrival.
  
  Whilst she waited for this man. Alexander St. Claire, the ninth Duke of
  Stourbridge.
  
  A man who, as an acquaintance of her late father, was not at all as Angelina
  had imagined him to be whenever she had thought of him these past three years.
  Pleasantly so. She had been prepared for a man of middle years, perhaps
  running to fat, with a face florid from an overindulgence of port.
  
  But this man could be aged only thirty years at the most. And his face, though
  admittedly hard and aristocratic, held the same chisel