The King Without a Heart

to remain in the house where she had been born. She had been so happy there with her father and mother, but he had told her curtly it was impossible.

She was informed later that the house was to be sold with all its contents and she was not permitted to keep even some small pieces of furniture that she particularly loved.

Only with Nanny’s help was she able to save some small ornaments, which her mother had always prized and

He taught her far more than any governess could have done and the books that she had studied in her father’s library and now in her uncle’s completed her education.