For five years (after being rescued) she served as the Dowager Duchess’s companion who by all account is a witch (no offence to fantasy writers and Hermione Granger who also happens to be a witch is my favourite). The man should have been given a pep talk early in life.Īn orphan who was saved by the Dowager Duchess of Wyndham from a fate very much unacceptable to her.

Because he had never brought himself to talk about his inability with identifying alphabets and other written characters he had started to believe himself dumb and a good for nothing idiot. His problem lies in the fact that he does not believe in himself. He tries to hide his faults behind his charm. The man is too intelligent to manage a dukedom and too clever to have avoided the trip to the gallows as a consequence of his chosen career (being a highway man) after he sold his commission in the army. No, I do not mean that he is illiterate or not intelligent because that is not the case. Audleys being the couple (His mother’s sister and her husband) who took him and gave the orphaned boy a home since the time of his birth. In short, for all the riches and power that he seemingly possesses, the man is a prisoner in his own body and a stranger to all except for a chosen few (very few). Apparently, since he was born, the importance of duty (to the name of Wyndham) had been drilled in to him to such an extent that he had stopped being the man he should have been and is rather living a life in which all he does and all he allows himself to be is what is expected of the person who bears the title of Wyndham. This man happens to be the 7th Duke of Wyndham (with many other honorific titles to go with that too). The only difference being the points of view of the two couples regarding the major event and their own personal tale of emotions and feelings towards each other.įollowing are the main characters for this particular story with of course what I think of them too: The two books (in the sequence of their publication) are:īoth the books have almost a similar tale to tell, because of the time frame, the major event around which the story revolves and the people involved in it being the same. The Two Dukes of Wyndham is a series of course of two books of two men who at one point or another to be titled the Duke of Wyndham. Now, I will write what I have to say about the said series.

Following is what Julia Quinn says about her series “ The Two Dukes of Wyndham” on her website.

The lost duke of wyndham series