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The intensely revealing and entertaining account of a great royal secret and hidden love storyxan unbuttoned history of Queen Victorias loves and intriguesLong before her successful marriage to Prince Albert Princess Victoria had an affair with the dashing Scottish th Lord Elphinstone After the liaison was exposed Elphinstone was banished to India appointed Governor of Madras which allowed Victorias mother to engineer a royal union for her with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg After five years of pining for Elphinstone Victoria finally gave in and married AlbertDespite a successful marriage Victoria never forgot Elphinstone and after a decade in India he returned to her side as Lord-in-Waiting at Court He only left her to take up the critical role of Governor of Bombay during the Indian Uprising of Elphinstone died soon after in June from a feverMany attempts were made to bury the memory of Lord Elphinstone his long-running relationship with the monarch and his grand service for the Empire but Victoria recorded it in letters to her confidant her first-born the Princess Royal Vicky The revealing correspondence like a ticking time-bomb sat in a German castle attic until when King George VI Victorias great-grandson sent a courtier MI operative Anthony Blunt on seven special missions to gather the letters.