I heartily apologize for being out of the loop for several weeks. Apart from my non-stop home computer problems (and it is a new computer), I have been overwhelmed at The Palace. You know how Palaces are: plots, counterplots, revolts, affairs with Palace guards; it never stops. Douglas and Henry are traveling to England, Bulgaria, South Africa, Nigeria, and God know where else, so this mild-mannered countess from Rhode Island is trying to keep it all together.

I though you might enjoy a very recent portrait of me. I was plotting something!