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The Fourth Son

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Facing the public was not going to be easy.

For someone who had not had to be the public face of anything and who was living in an environment where in America only two people knew who he was, stepping out of the plane at the small international airport, he is staggered to discover half the principality has turned out to see him.

The fear he feels extends to whether it is going to be a problem for Ruth.

He need not have worried.  She is far more experienced in fronting up to, sometimes hostile, crowds, having worked for an accounting firm that specialised in takeovers, mergers, and bankruptcy.

A crowd of adoring people is grist to the mill for her.

Of course, meeting people who are pleased to see you is one thing, but there’s also the drive to the castle and the people who might not want to see you or make you welcome.

Our new king is not so sure about what his family’s reaction might be, and he was definitely very scared of what his mother was going to do or say.