Edward VIII became notorious for abandoning the throne for Mrs Simpson, but in the summer of 1911 he was a prince straight from the pages of a fairy-tale. Raised by the disciplinarian King George V he longed for the warmth that had been denied him. In contrast, the lives of the high society Houghton girls were full of fun. When a moment of serendipity brings Edward and Lily Houghton together, the pressures of a stuffy court are replaced with the lightness of which Edward has dreamt. But a future monarch could not choose his own Queen. Could the devotion of Edward and Lily triumph? Or would they bow to the inevitable?