The Kenyan highlands were a mecca for Europeans because, in 1902, the White Highlands were “officially reserved for the exclusive use of Europeans.” Something that didn’t end until 1961. But at the sound of the train they rose into the air-thousands of flamingos, flying in a dense pink cloud. The lake was covered in what looked like pink blossoms. The track went along the edge of the lake and again I cried out aloud. But Georgie brushes it off since “it was supposed to be a honeymoon never forget.” Their destination is the White Highlands they have an unparalleled view of the countryside from their train.
Simpson, David’s paramour, is a fellow passenger for much of their itinerary. From there it’s a Handley Page Hannibal to Cairo, Khartoum, Juba and finally Kisumu.”Ĭoincidentally, Mrs. From Brindisi it’s a flying boat to Alexandria. Then we take a train overnight through Italy to Brindisi. “From here we fly to Basel in Switzerland. “Are we going to fly all the way to Africa in one of those?” They have a long journey ahead, and Georgie is alarmed at the “rather small and frail” size of the “aeroplanes lined up on the tarmac.” This is the 13th Royal Spyness Mystery book, so a mystery is inevitable, recalling the cliché Busman’s Honeymoon. They leave their rocking honeymoon suite when the champagne goes flat and the food runs out, but Darcy has a surprise: they’re off to Happy Valley in Kenya. Georgie and Darcy are as poor as aristocratic churchmice the first part of their honeymoon is spent on a borrowed canal boat. She is of service to Her Majesty because she keeps the Queen apprised of what David and “That Woman” are up to (David, the Prince of Wales, and his scandalous American paramour, Mrs. Georgie is a very minor royal, yet she’s a favorite of Queen Mary.
Her bridal attendants are Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, England’s little princesses, in a church full of senior members of the royal family. Lady Georgie marries her Darcy in splendid style. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs by Rhys Bowen is the 13th Royal Spyness Mystery, where Georgie and Darcy are finally on their honeymoon in Kenya’s Happy Valley when murder crashes the party.
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