The Set-up at the Swank Bar
The Prince's date has gone badly. His mother has chastised and turned her back on him yet again and through-out it all, the conniving Private Secretary has lay witness. His plan falls into place...
The Prince will end up at this speakeasy where the women are loose, the men are looser and scandal is a hearbeat away...
Already feeling no pain - having tipped the flask back more than just a bit - the Prince arrives hoping to blend in
The place is hopping with every fun loving character imaginable...
The Private Secretary, in disguise, has summoned the girlfriend to the club in the hopes of 'getting something' started. Clearly, having been mortally embarrassed by events at the ballet earlier, she does not relish this chore.
At first, the Prince is happy to see her, but already three sheets to the wind, he spies the beautiful fan dancer and tries to make his way past the girlfriend to blow a princely kiss towards the exotic bird. The girlfriend is not amused.
But all good things seemingly must end...from new close friends, to friends possibly trying to be too close...things start to unravel for the Prince as suddenly, tempers flare and a punch is thrown.....
The prince is dragged away by the partying bouncer boys. The Private Secretary is elated - his plans to discredit the prince in a scandal have begun. Others take part willingly for cash under the table...in this case, the club owner who has agreed...
...to toss the Prince out in the street to a crowd of hungry paparrazi that have been tipped off to a possible Royal scandal. The girlfriend also gets her payoff outside the club from the Private Secretary who has just discarded his disguise.
But the Prince, who has been hiding in the shadows, is witness to this all.  Scandal, betrayal and the knowledge of a life out of control flood through the Prince now.  In his despair, his utter loneliness and a multitude of feelings that break the soul, the vision of his dreams comes back to him...........The Swan.
The Swan ...... beautiful, powerful, free .... everything the Prince desires to be.... but which allude him in the role he was given in life......
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