Many in society were surprised by the match, her own dear parents included. The beginning of her perfect, happily ever after, exactly six months on from her first meeting with the man she loved with all her heart. After all, she had been planning it all since she was ten, right down to the minutest of details because it was the most important day of her life. In fact, to her complete delight, everything about her wedding to the Marquess of Rainham was exactly as she had imagined it. Her wedding dress was embroidered subtly to match and her dainty bonnet decorated with beautiful silk replicas, scaled down to sit in a pleasing fashion. The air hung heavy with the fragrance of lilacs, Lizzie’s favourite flower, and tall vases and boughs festooned the aisle she would soon walk down. No mean feat in a church as large and grand as this one, yet hardly a surprise when this was the wedding of the Season: the day when the darling of society, the beautiful only daughter of the Earl of Upminster, married her handsome peer.Įven the sun had come out to celebrate and was cheerfully streaming through the imposing stained-glass windows in an exceedingly pleasing fashion and causing a kaleidoscope of colours to decorate the floor. Prologue St George’s Church, Hanover Square-June 1815Įvery pew was taken.
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