And the Princess Irene told me you were her great-great-grandmother!

"You could take up with one of the woodland fauns," Princess Irene suggested.

"I think we interrupted something," Princess Irene re- marked sardonically.

The adventure continues with Princess Irene and Curdie a year or two older.

Princess Irene has never married and is close to her brother, Constantine.

When the plane landed, Princess Irene was not on board.

Princess Irene survives him, along with their four children.

Prince Dor and Princess Irene have taken four years trying to get around to it.

"But so is Princess Irene, and she's a human girl."

I have said the Princess Irene was about eight years old when my story begins.