Royalty Defeated By Love

by Barbara Cartland

Michael, the Earl of Danesbury was being hounded to marry Lady Alice Randall, a woman he did not love. Even the Prince of Wales was determined to force him into marriage. Michael fled to his dilapidated ancestral castle for the first time since inheriting his title. There he heard a girl singing and fell in love. She was Bettina, daughter of an eccentric Major, a genius with gardens plants and herbs. Determined to put the castle gardens in good order, Michael hired the Major and found himself becoming more and more enchanted with Bettina. But Lady Alice came in hot pursuit, determined to use her powerful connections to snare him. His only hope was to enlist Bettina's help. Together they took an extraordinary gamble, one that could only succeed if it was protected by love. How love found the way to defeat Royalty and all its powers is told in this intriguing romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Genres: Romance

176 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2000

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars.

Nice and easy read by Dame Barbara. Neither MC was all that developed, and be honest, the H seemed a little too passive for me. He was positively a wimp when it came to the wannabe OW, Alice. However, this was safe, the H seemed like a genuine nice man (no rake or libertine), and the secondary couple was cute too.

[Laura · Rating 1 out of 5]

Listened to the audio book. Super ick. Partly because of the narrator, but the story wasn’t good either. Man had no backbone, girl apparently “spoke her mind” except she never did… simpering. Man/boy was kind of a coward. Boring plot. 2nd Barbara Cartland, very different than the other one

[Lawanda Reed · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was better

Her stories continue to be entertaining. I know I'm going to get a happy ending. Her heroines seem to be real people. On to the next story.

[Nadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this one. Here damsel in distress is a hero and heroine is saving him though all the book even though during their first meeting he was not acting as proper gentleman should.
Queen and Prince Regent appear here very cruel indeed. It was a sad beginning with that engagement party. Well, that's not a new thing to learn about hunting season opened on eligible bachelors, but it was sad to see that royal family took such an active part in the process even though everybody knew what was happening. And hero let us to believe that it wasn't an isolated incident and rather a known path to be taken by maidens' families. How disgusting.
There is good chemistry between heroes and I like the second pair in too. I like how heroine could take care of herself and stood her ground in the presence of the hero and of his want-to-be-your-wife-at-any-cost Lady Alice.
This is a really nice story.