Rose Reece an established actress, is challenged that she cannot take a girl unschooled in the dramatic arts and, within a period of five years, train her to the point where she tops the bill in a West End theatre. Twin girls from a rural background on the Isle of Wight become involved in this challenge and their lives are changed forever. Faced with the devious plots and wickedness of a young woman anxious to bring them down, they learn that being young, beautiful and in the limelight often results in finding themselves in strange and dangerous circumstances and encountering even stranger...

Victoria, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, born on 24th May, 1919 was the delight of the German Saxe Coburgs, but did not impress the English Royal Family. The Duke died just 8 months after his daughters birth and the Duchess, very determined that her child should eventually become Queen, ensured the carefully tutored Victoria, rarely met other children and only learned in her teens that this might happen. In her 18th year, she was crowned. Two years later she married Prince Albert, becoming pregnant almost immediately. She bore nine children and was attacked on eight occasions...