The Queen's Bath
The Princess-cum-Queen’s proclamation went out, that all of the capable men of the realm shall report for The Great Ejaculation.
Lydia’s reign was brief but notable. Borne of a lower noble house, but not royalty, her hand was given at eighteen to a prince, Wade, who was second in line to the throne. She protested as a matter of course, for she was loathed to leave her friends and lovers, and the prince was almost twice her age. As a young gentlewoman, the princess-to-be had experience but was not experienced. Her peers clumsily mounted her and she,...