The Hawk Is Dead

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While Their Majesties feature in this novel as themselves, all the words they speak are entirely my own.

The roles of the Royal Household staff are real, but the characters themselves are totally fictitious and my creation.

Monday 20 November 2023

It was both the southern entrance to the railway tunnel and the southern exit, depending, like so much in life, on your perspective. At this moment, through the crosshairs of the scope of his rifle, it was very definitely the exit. In just under three hours and seven minutes’ time, the Royal Train was scheduled to emerge from it, travelling at a steady 70mph, en route south from London to the city of Brighton and Hove.

He smiled. It was the smile of a man who knows something no one else does. Well, just two other people, actually.

The train would be carrying Her Majesty Queen Camilla, and her entourage, on the first leg of a two-day official hospice tour along the south coast of England.

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