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By all means, rest and take care of your health Let , and whether I can send you anything you ht need

This letter says far uerite reht with Paul, that e, which was the result of a brief, clandestine affair between the late tsaritsa, my mother, and the royal tutor, Henry Caine She’s kept the secret, and she and Dad have built a relationship

The Grand Duchess Margarita finally has a dad who loves her I cling to this, the one thing I’ve given her after taking so nancy, too A grandchild, he wrote Probably he helped devise this plan to get the grand duchess out of the tsar’s sight for a long while

But if my father has any ideas about what happens next, they’re not in this letter

Hearing from Katya and Peter warms me more than I could have anticipated I’ve missed the none of the others ever fully understood You only knew them for a s like I am Come on!

They weren’t, and they were There’s a kind ofyourself reflected in this entirely new person When you’re related to soo beyond logic I didn’t just fall in love with Paul in Russia; in some ways, I fell in love with h all the fallen letters ti for one from my older brother, Vladimir, heir to the throne It breaks my heart when I don’t find one

He’d write He would Vladi I noticed about hi brother instead of the big sister ouldn’t let me use her skateboard, I envisioned souerite is close to her brother--that was obvious froh that she would have told hi

Vladimir hardly seems like the Scarlet Letter type, but I have to remember what a different world this is Their ht racism was A-OK but freaked out about premarital sex Would he hate her for that? Even if he didn’t, Vladiht feel that he had to cut her off, possibly forever

Did I cost this Marguerite her brother, too?

Throughout the day, I keep expecting Theo to call--not literally, as the Suite Ie via the hotel I check the appoints, but there’s only one note, and that’s for toh I searcha note to any "Karin" when I was in this diain, I’m supposedly related to half the royal families in Europe, so that could be anyone

Not one line tells ain

Could I ask one of the security guards to track down the chemist Theo Beck? Maybe But I’rand duchess’s friendship with this world’s Theo, or how much they’ll report back to the tsar I need to be discreet if at all possible If only I had soht be, or when--

--but then I realize, I do know Really, I should’ve been able to guess on my own, but Theo hiht falls, I eat an early supper in o out (this time a dress in dark red velvet, with kiold embroidery on the chest, and black fur trim at the hehness?" the chauffeur asks