Morland Dynasty 7: The Chevalier

This is the fascinating book 7 in the saga of the Morland family. As always, totally loyal to the reigning monarch, the Morland family supports the last of the Stuarts with Annunciata joining the King in permanent exile in France. She is now 70 years old and feels it, with deaths,births and imprisonment of various members of her family. These books are a marvellous way to absorb British history by matching the lives of the Morlands with the reigning monarchs and relating their involvement with the royals and the aristocracy of the country. In this volume, Annunciata's son, Karellie is on the verge of being hanged, drawn and quartered for his support of the Stuart line, over the new Hanoverian, George Lewis, and it is only thanks to an escape plan by his family that he manages to flee to France. Annunciata's grandson, Matt, has an arranged marriage forced upon him during Annunciata's exile in France, which proves disastrous and threatens his very sanity. This is another very satisfactory chapter in the lives of the Morland family and I look forward to the next!