Chapter 234
Fief Lord Hare—Edward Dale Hare—was a romantic.
And there was no other way to describe him except as a romantic.
He was hopeless at business, repeatedly losing money. In his youth, he was handsome but too shy to make his looks known. Even during the social season, he never went up to the capital, preferring to interact only with his relatives on his estate. The only remarkable thing about him was his late wife, Catherine.
Catherine was extraordinarily beautiful.
But if beauty were all she had, she would have quietly faded into obscurity. She was famous because she was the granddaughter of an archduke, the daughter of a count, and had married Fief Lord Hare, passing over many suitors.
To no exaggeration, those numerous men were no different from her adornments.
A jewel’s true value lies not just in itself, but in who gifted it. This one from royalty, that one from a duchy, another from a foreign chieftain.
Among her jewelry, Crown Prince Gueuze was the finest. The next king of this country. The only heir to the throne. Everyone knew he was Catherine’s lover.
The question was whether he would propose to her or would take her as his mistress.
Some people thought she would become the crown princess, and eventually the queen, but the older generation predicted the engagement would break not long after the engagement ceremony, or she would be given the position of ‘concubine’ from the very start.
“She’ll be a mere mistress.”