title: The Politeness Of Princes: A British Humor Classic
author: P. G. Wodehouse
description: Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read. Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of pre-war English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career. An acknowledged master of English prose, Wodehouse has been admired both by contemporaries such as Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers such as Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie and Terry Pratchett. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blandings Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. Wodehouse is one of the best of British Humor writers! Enjoy!
zlib_text: **Prince Charming**
  
  _**Julie Garwood**_
  
   **Contents**
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Chapter 2
  
  Chapter 3
  
  Chapter 4
  
  Chapter 5
  
  Chapter 6
  
  Chapter 7
  
  Chapter 8
  
  Chapter 9
  
  Chapter 10
  
  Chapter 11
  
  Chapter 12
  
  Chapter 13
  
  Chapter 14
  
  Chapter 15
  
  Chapter 16
  
  Chapter 17
  
  Chapter 18
  
   **Chapter 19**
  
   **Chapter 1**
  
   **Contents-Next**
  
  _Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful._
  
  —William Shakespeare,
  
  _Measure for Measure_
  
  _London, England, 1868_
  
  The vultures were gathering in the vestibule. The salon was already filled to
  capacity, as was the dining room and the library above. More of the black-clad
  predators lined the curved staircase. Every now and then two or three would
  bob their heads in unison as they gulped from their glasses of champagne. They
  were watchful, expectant, hopeful. They were also vile and disgusting.
  
  They were the relatives.
  
  Quite a few friends of the earl of Havensmound were in attendance as well.
  They were there to show their support and their compassion over the
  unfortunate 