Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley by Charles Norris Williamson

"If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and the career of a splendid soldier would not have been broken.”Read here what happened to the girl, the soldier, and the white frock. - Summary by Carolin