Secrets of the Royal Maid

<Available for pre-order - a heartwarming new WWII saga of friendship, bravery and scandal that sees a young woman swap a Welsh mining for Buckingham Palace

The year is 1940 and WWII has a firm grip on Europe. In South Wales, seventeen-year-old pit miner''s daughter Rosa Edwards has just secured the position of royal maid at Buckingham Palace.

Setting off to the big smoke with only a small suitcase, she is determined to seize this opportunity while her new sweetheart is away fighting - and track down her best friend Alice, who moved to London and disappeared without trace.

But the dust has barely settled on Rosa''s new job when a grave accusation of dishonesty leaves her position in the balance. And when a salacious scandal involving Alice makes front-page news, Rosa must choose where her loyalties lie, and whether her new life is the one she wants after all . . .
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Product details

• Authors: Ellee Moules, Annie Seymour
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9781405979108
• ISBN: 978-1-4059-7910-8
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Series: The Royal Maid Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Westminster, Sagas, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, South Wales, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Relating to royalty or aristocracy