2. The Princelings and the Pirates

Book 2 in the saga of the Princelings of the East.

Fred and George set out to discover why the wine hasn’t been delivered, and get captured by pirates. Fred meets his true love and George gets more than he bargained for!

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Prologue

In which we meet Princess Kira and she meets disaster with equanimity

Chapter 1: A Case of Wine

In which we discover more about Castle Buckmore and Prince Lupin has more than one problem

Chapter 2: Fortune Favours the Brave

In which Fred and George take the Fortune-Dimerie Line

Chapter 3: The Golden Guinea and the Mare Swine

In which Fred and George find their sea legs and Victor has to walk the plank

Chapter 4: Shipwrecked

In which George plots his course and Fred goes flying

Chapter 5: Castle Marsh

In which Fred meets two members of royalty and George gains three companions

Chapter 6: The best laid plans

In which Fred and George find something nasty near the woodshed

Chapter 7: Castle Fortune

In which George becomes a code-breaker and Fred asks questions

Chapter 8: All Washed Up

In which Victor and Young Harry have an adventure all of their own

Chapter 9: Dungeons and Rumours

In which Fred and George rescue an old friend and a riddle is solved

Chapter 10: The Battle

In which Fred and George are overwhelmed by events

Chapter 11: Aftermath

In which Fred returns to Castle Fortune and Lupin meets his future bride

Chapter 12: The Line of Succession

In which Fred has a good talk to Lupin and George has a headache

Chapter 13: Epilogue

In which Fred and George look forward to a happy new year

Any reference or similarities to works or characters by any other authors is intended as a tribute not as plagiarism, or is entirely accidental. In particular thanks to WS Gilbert for the line introducing the Pirate King, to Bernard Cornwell for the 95th Company, which has been changed to the 25th, being the obvious place to put Haggis and his friend Neeps, and to everyone who has ever written a story about pirates, including those in the Caribbean. I mean, where else would pirates go to ply their trade?

I would like to thank my friend Julie for the inspiration about George’s injury, and hope she has an even speedier recovery than he is going to.