A/N : Chapter 4 is here! Thanx to all you wonderful reviewers again.

To CrazyCanuck - sorry, yes that was a spelling error

To Moonlight - I would love to be an author, but I doubt I'd be good enough really

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Okay, thanx again to all of you - you are all wonderful!!!

Now on with this story...

Disclaimer : I own Diana, Phillippe & Jackie but I do not own anybody else.

In a room, in a palace in a small European principality called Genovia, the Queen, her husband and her son sat opposite the man in charge of their security and his fifteen year old daughter whose existence had been kept from him until now.

"I feel I owe you all an explanation" Lars told the people in the room, "and this is it".

"When I first came to New York I acted as driver and bodyguard to Queen Amelia, or Princess Mia as she was then. Whilst I was in New York I met a woman named Jackie Roberts. We were of roughly the same age and we got on well. She was a beautiful girl, blonde and blue eyed and in time I fell in love with her. We saw quite a bit of each other for a while, but it got complicated. I was a bodyguard and my job was dangerous and took a lot of my time and it was stressful for both Jackie and I. We fought about my job many times but we always got over our disagreements because we loved each other. I never told anyone of our relationship because I did not want to put Jackie in any danger. As you know yourselves, it is possible for people such as royalty and those close to them to become targets and I did not want anyone who was out to get me to use Jackie as a means of attack and so no-one knew of our great love affair. No-one except Her Majesty, the Dowager Princess. Clarice needed my assistance one day but I was nowhere to be found. She had a servant call me on my mobile phone whilst I was at Jackie's and she answered it. Clarice would not let the subject go until I had told her everything. I had worried that she might be angry but she seemed to understand that I was in love and why I had kept my secrecy.

When the Princess fell pregnant with the young Prince, and she married Kenny, it was decided that they were to move to Genovia full time and obviously I would have to go with them. I was in two minds whether to give up my job and stay with Jackie but she refused to let me do it. She knew my job was my life and she would never allow me to give it up. I asked her to come to Genovia with me but she said she was not sure and that she would think about it. She had a job and all her family and friends in New York and would be hard for her to give all that up. I am sure that there are people in this room who understand that.

Anyway, after the wedding and the move back to Genovia I visited Jackie on two occasions. The Dowager Princess made my visits appear necessary and accompanied me to New York where it would appear she was on a state visit and I was simply there as her head of security.

The first visit was wonderful. I spent every spare moment with the woman I loved and during that time I asked her to marry me. She made me the happiest man alive when she agreed to be my wife but she swore me to secrecy. Our love and our engagement was not to be revealed yet, as we were sure if the papers caught hold of the story there would be a scandal. You can imagine what the press would have thought of a young princess's bodyguard visiting a woman in New York when he should have been doing his job.

It was agreed that I would visit again in a few months when Jackie had had time to tell her family about me and sort out about leaving America to come and live here with me. I went over as planned, again with Clarice, and together Jackie and I had a wonderful week, but two days before we were due to come back to Genovia, bringing my fiancée with us, she told me it was over. She admitted that she had told her family about our relationship and they had not approved. They thought that I was wrong for her and they did not want her to move so far away. When it came to a choice between her family and me, Jackie chose her family, a decision which I do not blame her for at all, as I soon realised it was probably for the best, but at the time I was heart broken. We travelled from New York, not straight back to Genovia, but to the Dowager Princess's castle at Miragnac. We stayed for a week and Clarice was very kind allowing me time to get over what had happened before we returned to the palace here in Genovia.

The Princess and her husband never knew anything about it and I am assuming that it was on that final trip that Diana came to be. Due to the difficulty of our parting, I am not surprised that Jackie did not inform me of her pregnancy. Her family would still have been against our relationship, with a child or without, and it was probably easier for her to carry on in New York and bring Diana up alone than to tell me and cause an uproar.

Now, Diana is grown, and she had never been told of my existence until a few days ago, when she found her birth certificate. Despite our parting, Jackie had my name put on the certificate to show that I was the father of her child, even though she never told me. Diana was impatient to know me, which I am of course thankful for, and she used al her savings to buy a plane ticket to get here. Unfortunately, she knew her mother would never allow her to visit me and so she has runaway leaving only a short note explaining what she has done.

All that I have left to say, your majesties is that I apologise for keeping such events a secret from you and also that I hope you will find it in your hearts to allow my illegitimate daughter to stay here with me until I can contact her mother and arrange something with her as to what is best to be done"

A/N : I will try and update faster if I can, but in the meantime - please keep reviewing. It really does keep me writing, if you keep letting me know how much you like the story.