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    "Alright. It''s best this way."


    Matthew was d that Lucy listened to him. He gently hugged her.


    They were intimate for a while before Matthew left Lucy''s room unwillingly that night.


    Even though he wanted very much to sleep with Lucy, Juliana was here. She was probably overjoyed to finally find her daughter, and she wanted to sleep with Lucy every night.


    Matthew had never dreamed that there woulde a day when he would fight his mother-inw for the right to sleep with his wife.


    He stared pitifully at his pretty wife, and Lucy had no idea how to react to the look on his face.


    Juliana did not help at all. She knew that Matthew did not want to leave Lucy''s side, but she even asked Matthew deliberately, "Velda and I are about to go to bed. Shouldn''t you return to your own room now?"


    There was nothing Matthew could do. He could not really kick his mother-inw out, could he? He gave an awkward smile.


    "Alright. I''m leaving now. Please have a good rest."


    Matthew left the room after that, and he gently closed the door behind him.


    Meanwhile, Charlotte had just woken up from a good sleep. She began to analyze the situation with her own logic.


    She was naive to believe that Matthew would fall deeply in love with her in no time at all.


    Even if he did not love her, it would only take a little fondness on his part for her to create multiple misunderstandings between him and Lucy.


    She wanted to show Lucy who was their parents'' favorite daughter.


    Charlotte slept very well with the anticipation of Lucy getting into trouble. The thought cheered Charlotte up tremendously.


    The next morning, Lucy was dragged out of bed early for makeup. She had to wear a princess gown that wasplicated, luxurious, and had multipleyers.


    After she was finally done, the maids came in with a crystal crown that was covered in diamonds.


    The main attraction of the crown


    was a pink diamond the size of a pigeon''s egg. White diamonds were scattered fromrge to small sizes around the pink diamond to entuate it.


    It was dazzling, and every angle of the crown shone brightly. It took one nce to know how priceless it was! The maids put up Lucy''s hair in a bun that looked like a flower bud. Lucy could hardly feel her head after putting on the crown.


    The crown was very heavy, at least six to eight pounds. Lucy looked a little bitter.


    "Mrs. Hudson, can I not wear this? It''s... too heavy."


    Lucy looked pitifully at Helen, the royal housekeeper, who was still helping Lucy put on multiple essories.


    Helen rejected Lucy''s request stoically.Content rights belong to N?velDrama.Org.


    "We can''t do that, Your Highness.


    The king will be introducing you to his ministers. You will have to show them how dignified you are as a princess. We can''t be careless about this."


    Arthur had arranged for a special internal meeting today, and all the ministers had been summoned to the pce.


    Among them included dignitaries Charleston had sent out to foreign countries. Their diplomats had also been summoned back to the pce.


    Everyone was happy to see the royal family find their princess, and they returned to discuss the date for the princess''ing-of-age coronation ceremony as well.


    The women of Charleston came of age at 20 while men at 22. Normal families would also hold aing-of-age ceremony for their children when they became official adults.


    It was a little moreplicated for the royal family as theiring-of-age ceremony was also a coronation ceremony.


    Once a princess came of age, the king and queen would crown her and grant her a title and a fief.


    A fief was something very practical as it involved granting a town or a county to the princess. That would make the princess an honorary mayor of the town.