Clive, the Earl of Bourne, nearly twenty-eight, high, handsome and pursued by enumerable women is determined not to obtain married. He is fed up with his dad, the Duke of Shelbourne and his relationships begging him to produce an heir and he has decided that he will not marry until he’s very much older. To his horror the Duke comes back from Windsor Castle to tell his son that Queen Victoria commands him to marry Princess Gilberta of Saxe-Coburg, who is arriving in England almost immediately..LEARNING MUCH MORE approximately The Earl Elopes (Barbara Cartland’s Red Collection 115) The Earl quarrels with his father who says that, unless he will as he is told, he’ll refuse to pay back his very large debt. In despair the Earl goes up to the nursery to find out his old Nanny who has always loved him and to whom he has converted with all his issues since his mom died. Nanny is certainly appalled at the thought of him needing to marry a German girl he hasn’t noticed and she therefore has a clever idea and suggests to the Earl that he runs away. In fact, to hide his tracks, Nanny suggests that he should elope with the person he loves a lot more than anyone else, who’s in fact himself! The Earl will just as Nanny suggests. As he thinks his father will send somebody North to avoid him marrying at Gretna Green, he drives his horses South and eventually arrives at Land’s End, where he rescues a very pretty woman from a highwayman, who his attempting to grab her favourite equine. The Earl after that takes a work caring for horses for a distinguished General, who is the daddy of lovely girl. How, unexpectedly, he finds what he is definitely seeking without actually being aware of it, can be told in this fascinating story by BARBARA CARTLAND.