As the House of Windsor reels from the death of a princess and faces the compassion and hostility of the whole world's media, unseen secret forces are battling to undermine the Royal House and to protect it at all costs; enter Old Blue, tough, bearing scars which belie compassion; working with majesty's own to recover stolen symbols of honour.On the other side of the Atlantic, an ordinary lady shares the common grief more than most, as though someone she knew deeply has gone and another been left to shoulder the burden of sovereignty alone. Little could she and the powers that be suspect there is more than human compassion behind her affliction. Little could the guardians of the centuries expect their Royal secret to unburden itself of the hopes and fears of a family in exile in this way. And little does anyone know that there is more than one rival claim buried in the past of England's ancient traditions.