title: Becoming Royalty: Book One of the Enchanted Cloak Series
author:  Cherish A. Doll 
description: Cherish A. Doll was born and raised in northern California and is a middle school teacher. She and her husband have two children (a set of boy/girl twins) who bring great joy to their lives. Her interests include travel, arts and crafts, video broadcasting, reading - and, of course - writing!
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  The Princess Elopes
  
  
  I
  
  II
  
  III
  
  IV
  
  V
  
  VI
  
  VII
  
  VIII
  
  IX
  
  X
  
  XI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Princess Elopes
  
  
  ### Harold MacGrath
  
  
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  * I
  
  
  * II
  
  
  * III
  
  
  * IV
  
  
  * V
  
  
  * VI
  
  
  * VII
  
  
  * VIII
  
  
  * IX
  
  
  * X
  
  
  * XI
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Al Haines
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PRINCESS ELOPES
  
  
  by
  
  
  HAROLD MACGRATH
  
  
  Author of The Puppet Crown, The Grey Cloak, The Man on the Box
  
  
  With Illustration by Harrison Fisher
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Frontispiece: Princess Hildegarde (Gretchen) playing the piano.]
  
  
  
  
  
  New York Grosset &Dunlap Publishers Copyright 1905 The Bobbs-Merrill
  
  
  Company
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  TO MY WIFE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PRINCESS ELOPES
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  It is rather difficult in these days for a man who takes such scant
  
  
  interest in foreign affairs—trust a whilom diplomat for that!—to
  
  
  follow the continual geographical disturbances of European surfaces.
  
  
  Thus,