Thirty-Seven:
Fiona Fallon
I spent the weekend with Duchess Issa, in her family home. On Monday, Zoe, Lotte, their brother’s, and I would go to school. The Orange Boarding School Academy was one of the most exclusive public schools in the Netherlands. There, I would board except on weekends and holidays when I learned it was expected that I would join the family.
On my first night in the Netherlands, I met the whole of the family. After unpacking, and taking a bit of a nap, there was a knock on my door. I could hear whispering outside it. “Do you think she’s pretty?” I heard a boy’s voice ask. “What does it matter, imbecile? She’s our cousin.” “Well, we don’t want to have an ugly cousin do we?”
The knocking continued. These must have been the boy
