Wanted - A Royal Wife (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 64)Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection #64af Barbara Cartland

The Duke of Norlington and his sister Lady Latasha are living quietly in the country very happily with their horses The Duke receives a letter from an old Oxford friend who is now His Royal Highness Prince Kraus of Oldessa, a small Principality in the Balkans.

The Prince asks the Duke if his sister would consent to marry his brother, Prince Stefan, as she is related to the Royal family, thereby giving Oldessa British protection from the Russians who are vying to take over as many States as they can in the Balkans.

Latasha does not wish to marry for any reason other than true love, but agrees to visit Oldessa in disguise as Lady Gloria Ford to spy out the land and take a good look at Prince Stephan.

Once in Oldessa she is impressed by the beauty of the country and finds the people delightful.

How she finds a way to cure Prince Kraus’s terrible migraines, helps to save Oldessa from the clutches of the Russians and falls in love is all told in this fast moving romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.

Barbara Cartland was the world’s most prolific novelist who wrote an amazing 723 books in her lifetime, of which no less than 644 were romantic novels with worldwide sales of over 1 billion copies and her books were translated into 36 different languages. As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, theatrical plays and books of advice on life, love, vitamins and cookery. She wrote her first book at the age of 21 and it was called Jigsaw. It became an immediate bestseller and sold 100,000 copies in hardback in England and all over Europe in translation. Between the ages of 77 and 97 she increased her output and wrote an incredible 400 romances as the demand for her romances was so strong all over the world. She wrote her last book at the age of 97 and it was entitled perhaps prophetically The Way to Heaven. Her books have always been immensely popular in the United States where in 1976 her current books were at numbers 1 & 2 in the B. Dalton bestsellers list, a feat never achieved before or since by any author. Barbara Cartland became a legend in her own lifetime and will be best remembered for her wonderful romantic novels so loved by her millions of readers throughout the world, who have always collected her books to read again and again, especially when they feel miserable or depressed. Her books will always be treasured for their moral message, her pure and innocent heroines, her handsome and dashing heroes, her blissful happy endings and above all for her belief that the power of love is more important than anything else in everyone’s life."