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Mackenzie Grierson

... public.”

“Yes and no. The maid sold the story to the papers, so she made money. But the Beaumonts are a powerful family. They got the story killed to protect their daughter – it was never published.”

Farah paused, poured herself a glass of water from the carafe on her desk and drank before going on.

“Both Henry and Amanda were strongly affected by the encounter. He tried to see her again, and she tried to send him messages. But her parents would not allow it. Neither of them could get through the cordon of security her parents put around her. He accepted what she wanted him to do, swallowed his pride, and apologized to her brother. His disciplinary hearing was canceled.”

“But I get the feeling all was not well,” I said.

“No, it wasn’t. A few weeks later, Amanda discovered she was pregnant. Her parents put enormous pressure on her to have an abortion. But she must have had strong memories of how she had conceived the child. One can only assume that these memories were not unpleasant. She flatly refused to terminate the pregnancy. Her parents took her to Switzerland under the pretext that she had contracted a rare illness. They kept her sequestered in a private Swiss clinic. That’s where she gave birth to Jack. The only record he kept of his origin ...

... is his Swiss birth certificate. It’s got his official name, the one his mother wrote down for him – John Henry Beaumont Grierson.”

“My father was born in Switzerland? And carried Beaumont in his official name?”

“Yes. The Beaumonts repudiated Jack, but they can’t deny his Beaumont blood – he can trace his descent to King Edward III, just like they can.”

“Wow!” Royalty was just theoretical to me, the sort of thing I saw in movies. But my father actually was descended from the kings of England! And through him, so was I!

“Amanda’s parents took the newborn from her – they literally tore baby Jack from his mother’s bosom – and brought him back to England. They gave the baby to Henry saying, ‘This is yours.’ That was it. Jack never saw his mother again.”

“Didn’t she try to see him?”

“At first, she was prevented from seeing him by her parents. But as the years passed – I’m conjecturing here – she began to think it was best for her to pretend she’d never had a child.” Farah paused and cleared her throat. “As soon as Henry got Jack, he was posted to a non-family high-risk station in the Middle East. Even as a baby, Jack spent considerable time in Army foster care. Even so, by all accounts, Henry was a model father and Jack worshipped him. The Beaumonts...