This very sweet and lighthearted story, filled with humor and improbabilities. Please update this story soon.

I'm going to stop now or I'll get no revision done but I'm very impressed so far :) I can imagine it gets addictive...

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Great chapter! I like Lionel and Emily too. But the "philosophical soliloquoy" and the beginning could just be "reverie" or "distracted musings" or something like that!

Juat what does "a caddis fly larva about to emerge into the stream for the first time." look like? And wouldn't that be the only time it did that? Anyway, it's a good metaphor. Or simile. Or whatever.

"Vladimir Kalashnikof"-good subtle wordplay there. Was he 47 at the time? As for "he emigrated back to Vorkuta."-perhaps "repatriated" would be more accurate? Did you know that Vorkuta was the site of a notorious Gulag slave labor camp in the Stalin era?

Nice chapter. Lively dialogue and character interplay.

It's nice to see Bertie having fun and being a bit of a matchmaker. By the way, I know you don't READ historical romance, but if you did, Lisa Kleypas is the BEST IN THE WORLD! Especially her WALLFLOWER books because they are about four girls left on the shelf scheming madly to find husbands! I think you would like Daisy's story best, it's called SCANDAL IN SPRING by Lisa Kleypas.

Don't say you haven't been warned!

I was sorry to see the Professor leave. His whimsy made the others seem almost normal. You present Queen Victoria pretty much as I had imagined she would behave in family matters. Good chapter.

Ah, the theater! What a corrupting influence! And what a wonderful old-person rant. I do enjoy those. :) And all pigs should be named Enid.

And gosh, doesn’t everyone go from butchery to library?

Soup of death sounds terribly intriguing, so I shall read on!

Oh, hurrah. The Princess of Wales is deaf! And we all know that ghastly-tasting things are good for us, right?

Congratulations to you on another wonderfully executed chapter and huzzah - I've finally found time to read!

Another fine chapter with crisp dialogue moving the story along and developing character relationships. Some keenly fashioned phrases-my favorite: "...even if they're so gangly they can hide behind a pencil..."

Mrs. Pearce seems a center of common sense in a whirlwind of off-centered personalities. And Billinggate is an exemplary absent-minded professor. Gotta love the way he exasperates the Royals.

I'm bothered a bit by the way the Queen casually referred to her husband as "Albert" to her son. It seems that a mother of her rank and conditioning would be more likely to say: "Your father" or "Prince Albert."

Great new chapter! I liked the way Elspeth has a special box of treasures, like favorite marbles and things. And I like how patient and courteous Bertie is even when he's really stressed! Is Elspeth being photographed so she can be admired by the Russian Prince? This is really exciting!

Elsie has a lot of nerve calling her Aunt Cora "eccentric." She seems a bit off herself, along with most of the other characters in your yarn. But that just makes it more appealing. For me, nothing is more charming than British wackiness when it is captured by a witty British writer with great imagination and insight-going all the way back to "Alice in Wonderland" or even "Gulliver's Travels."

(American wackiness is something else, and I'm doing my best to carry on the tradition.)

Keep up the good work.

Another great chapter! I liked the language and her overwhelming confidence, as always. But I was also amazed by her coaxing the cook in that astonishingly adorable and childlike manner!

One thought - when you rush to put chapters out, sometimes you forget to read them over and edit. Like when she says, "I sprinted down teh stairs as fast as I could." Once you say "sprinted" you can cut out "as fast as I could." Then you have more space for another joke or some astonishing detail!

Ah! the use of Anon! How utterly thrilling. And how wonderful to hear about all the princesses when I just finished Born to Rule by Julia P. Gelardi (A good read. Check it out)!

It must be awful strange to have the royal family intently questioning you...

I would assume the professor's use of Elizabeth instead of Elspeth is due to his ridiculously short memory?

Haha - 'you could even ear the italics', the Windsor and Balmoral section, 'There were three shrill gasps of horror', and, of course, the general hilarious flap of librarians invited to the palace! How utterly humorous! Wonderful start. :D

Hi there! It's so great having another chapter up at last. I really enjoyed the special odds and ends like the guide to Ostrich farming and the small Zulu shield. And I admire the way Elspeth is thinking so calmly and rationally at the end about Eddie - in spite of the craziness of the tossing and turning, which you describe VERY well!

Looking forward to the next chapter - just don't let all the minor characters overshadow Elspeth and her story!