❤ —- Sylvia for Alexa: “I can’t believe he calls her that. It’s so gross.”
BLACK SWAN Starter Sentences ( NOT ACCEPTING )
“Tell me about it.” The look on both their faces was of pure disgust and had Alexa not remember to lift her fan in order to cover face, she was sure that they would not hear the end of it from their etiquette tutors. Princesses, after all, were not supposed to publicly shame their guests no matter how gross they were being. Some of the weirdest events really did happen during royal events and no one knew that better than the two of them.
It had been a long afternoon of greeting and shaking hands with people and it was only the fact that Sylvia was going through the same thing that brought Alexa comfort. Today was the anniversary of the diplomatic relations between England and Sweden so it was, of course, only natural that both royal family met to celebrate the occasion-- this year, the festivities were held in England.
Turning away in order not to hear another word of the conversation between the old baroness and her new twenty something boy-toy, Alexa took Sylvia by the hand and lead the other through the crowd of foreign diplomats, dignitaries and royals. “Let’s go look for something to eat before we both puke out our champagnes.”