Queen Alyssa was not what Emma expected. Even after Jake told her it would not be like meeting Queen Elizabeth, she still held onto the thought of having to walk down a long carpet in a throne room and curtsying at the end without making a fool of herself. It didn’t happen like that at all. First of all, there was no throne room.

     Emma had eventually chosen her favorite Donna Karan navy blue skirt suit with a yellow satin blouse. It was a couple of years old now, but to her it was new. She’d picked it up in a consignment store for a bargain price and she always...