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Book Title: Under His Spell
Series: The Rival Courts
Author: Luv Lubker
Publication Date: May 30 2023
Publisher: Historium Press
Page Length: 384
Genre: Historical Fiction
Audiobook (coming soon):
Ella McNish, Jamie Collette, Max Mustache, Christian Stark, Ju Thomas, Philip Zielinzki, Michael Garamoni
A beautiful love story between the Princess Royal Victoria and Fritz Wilhelm, Frederick III of Prussia
A lonely young man attends the first World’s Fair – the Great Exhibition of 1851 – and meets a family who changes his life forever.
Follow the young Prince Fritz – later Friedrich III – of Prussia and his wife, Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, Vicky, (parents of Kaiser Wilhelm II) through their courtship and the joys and struggles of their first four years of marriage.
Fritz and Vicky dream of a peaceful united Germany, but Fritz’s uncle Karl has his own dreams of power…
Discover often hinted at but unrevealed secrets of the Prussian Royal court…
About the Author
Luv Lubker has lived in the Victorian era half her life, making friends with the Brontë sisters and the extended family of Queen Victoria. Now she knows them quite as well as her own family.
Born in a cattle trough in the Appalachian mountains, Luv lives in Texas - when she comes to the modern world.
When she isn’t living in the Victorian era, she enjoys being with her family; making and eating delicious raw food, riding her bike (which she only learned to ride at 25, though she’d ridden a unicycle since she was 7), and watching animals - the passion of her childhood.
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| Read An Excerpt |
Under His Spell
“Ich weiß nicht [1]…”
he murmured, and again, with a deep sigh, turned his face uneasily away from
her, carefully taking his hands from her chest and putting one on her shoulder,
one on her waist, then, just holding her hands again. He continued, “I don’t
know… I – I don’t know how to speak to you. I mean, I – don’t know any words
that aren’t – improper – I mean – coarse and vulgar. I – I can’t even make
myself call you Meine Liebchen or Schatzi – It is just –”
“Do
you mean to say you don’t like me to call you Mein Schatz or Liebling?”
“Oh,
nein, Vicky! Your words are so pure and clean. But – what will others
think if I just call you Vicky – it seems so strange and stiff for a husband
not to call his wife by some endearment – they will think we are like all the
others...”
“Fritz,
what does it matter what others think of what you call me? That is a private
matter between us, isn’t it?”
“I
know; it is really just that – everything is – tainted – in my mind, I do not
want to have those thoughts when I am with you. Besides your parents, your
family, almost everything I know is so – wrong – almost all the endearments I
ever hear are either in sarcasm or such situations as I do not wish to
associate with our love – And – oh!” He rose and walked through the room.
“How can I take you into that! You don’t know what it is!” His voice trembled.
“I don’t want anything to happen to you, Vicky! I – I don’t want to see you
suffer.”
She
rose, and put her arms round Fritz’s neck and kissed him. They had been alone
for two hours, as husband and wife, and had not even kissed since they left the
chapel. Fritz held her tight in his arms, returning her kiss. She broke away.
“Fritz, don’t be afraid. You can’t contaminate me. YOU are so pure, I love you
so much for all these thoughts! Thank you, thank you for – everything. I am
your wife now, you are my husband, it is right, and pure, and clean, for you to
have these thoughts about me! Don’t – don’t – I don’t know, you have lived in
such different circumstances than I have, and I have always been so –
sheltered, I suppose, but, I can try to see what you mean from what you have
told me, and what Papa and others have. I will do anything for you, Fritz, and
will go anywhere with you. I trust you!”
[1] “I don’t know...”
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Thanks so much for hosting Luv Lubker today with an excerpt, Helen.
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