num_pages: 384
description: Cleo Davenport has heard the whispers: the murmured conversations that end abruptly the second she walks into a room. Told she was an orphan she knows the rumorthat her father is none other than the Prince of Wales heir to the British throne. And at her childhood home at Cairos Shepheards Hotel where royals rulers and the wealthy live they even called her The Princess.But her life is turned upside down when she turns seventeen. Sent to London under the chaperonage of her very proper aunt shes told its time to learn manners and make her debut. But Cleos life cant be confined to a ballroom. She longs for independence and a career as a jewelry designer for Cartier but she cannot move forward until she finds out about her past.Determined to unlock the truth Cleo travels from London back to Cairo and then France where her investigations take a shocking turn into the world of the Parisian demi-monde and a high-class courtesan whose scandalous affair with the young Prince of Wales threatened to bring down the British monarchy long before anyone had heard of Wallis Simpson. 
language: English
title: The Royal Windsor Secret
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks