Twenty-three:
Prince Declan
here are things that have to be done to ensure a King’s reign. Investitures are one of them. Acknowledging the next heir. It wasn’t enough to simply be born into royalty. The church had to anoint you, officially. Usually, this happened once the former Prince was King. But my father was dead, and so I had to go through this sooner than expected.
An investiture, in Scotland at least, went like this:
I went down the church aisle, and at the front the priest crowned me and blessed me with holy water. I read a speech declaring my intentions as the future King. First in Latin, then Gaelic, then English.
The whole time, I stared out into the audience. One of my friends from Wales, Gwyneth Godford, was there along with the Princess of Wales, Ar
