Succession

Succession
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What if… Queen Elizabeth II had no legal right to the British throne?<br><br>What if… The Queen&#39;s entire line, all the way back to George III&#39;s fifteen children, was… illegitimate?<br><br>SUCCESSION is based on a little known historical fact.<br><br>SEPTEMBER 6, 1997<br><br>Across the world, two-and-a-half billion people sit glued to the broadcast of Princess Diana&#39;s funeral. In Bayonne, New Jersey, surgical resident Dr. Emma Parks watches the somber proceedings over her morning coffee, then hurries to get ready for work. Today&#39;s shift, she expects, will be no different from any other… fixing broken bodies, one emergency at a time. But Emma couldn&#39;t be more wrong. Today, she&#39;ll discover a lover&#39;s betrayal. Today she&#39;ll save a man&#39;s life using a procedure she was never trained for. Today she&#39;ll receive a mysterious call from a man riding in a London taxi. And, before the day is out, she&#39;ll be suspended from her job.<br><br>But that&#39;s just today…<br><br>Tomorrow, a very determined killer will try to end her life.<br><br>Emma Parks always figured her life was pretty ordinary. She&#39;s about to discover how extraordinary it really is.<br><br>&#39;Succession&#39; was reviewed in the May/June 2014 issue of Cayman Airways in-flight magazine (p. 16):<br><br>http://caymanairwaysskies.customtravelmags.com/publication/?m=7080&amp;l=1

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Douglas Schofield. Succession

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By the same author

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I first conceived this story in the mid-1990’s, while I was living in British Columbia. A television documentary on the life of George III made a fleeting reference to Hannah Lightfoot, the so-called “Fair Quaker” who – the narrator alleged – George had secretly married eighteen months before he ascended the throne. On further research, I discovered that the story of George and Hannah’s clandestine marriage, if it was mentioned at all, was dismissed by most historians as mischievous myth-making.

That may be so, but the potential consequences of such a union led me to imagine the story you are about to read.

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“Ah. Our Lord Bute…”

Bute bowed, straightened.

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