First up, we have my personal favourite: "O Tempora! O Mores!" which I'll now try to explain a bit about. Baaaaasically, I was researching Nicholas II and Alexandra for photo porpoises, when I went along my normal route of learning his family tree and that was when I realised that he had a brother, George, who had died in 1899 from TB. Hm, thunk I, so many young royals died young and unmarried, so why not make up George's story if he'd married before 1899? Here he is, by the way. He was in the Navy, hence the fake rock and the uniform
Well, as I'd been watching too much Lark Rise to Candleford at the time, I was a bit obsessed with Oxfordshire and rural accents, so I decided not only to tell the story from the perspective of someone other than George, but also to make his wife a blacksmith's daughter from Oxfordshire. Ta da, one Elspeth Gwendolyn Victoria Higgins. Now I know that it was basically IMPOSSIBLE for a Russian Grand Duke to marry a commoner (and an English one at that) but why not? It's my imagination anyway.
Well, that's the general scene set, but the title is Latin and Cicero (I'd expect nothing less...) and means: "Oh these times! Oh this conduct!" which sums up the story quite well, I think. Pretty much Elsie (as Elspeth is known) works at a library, goes to Windsor Castle, gets engaged to about a billion princes and then...well I'll leave you to read about that.
The vast amount of characters do get a wee bit confusing, so I'll pop a Dramatis Personae into the next post to help you all.
Now, the LINK: http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2815735/1/O-tempora_O_mores
(You'll have to copy and paste it into the long white box at the top of your screen, as links never work for me on computers.)
Enjoy.
