Elizabeth Hastings' future is radically altered when her parents are killed in carriage accident. She discovers that her father left her penniless and with debts unpaid. She is forced to leave Claridge's and take a position as a lady's maid. She is hired as maid to young Princess Victoria. Victoria is virtually a prisoner at Kensington palace where her mother and Sir John Conroy conspire to be her Regent and keeper of her purse. She is never allowed to be alone. Her mother, the Duchess of Kent, and Sir John spread gossip suggesting that she is frivolous and scatter-brained and needs them to rule in her stead when she ascends the throne. Liza's presence in the drafty, ill-kept castle gives Victoria her first friend, intrigue, and a way out of her horrible predicament.
Truman Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-13
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