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	'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a novel by [[Nora Roberts]] first published by '''Silhouette Books''' in '''2002''' as Silhouette Special Edition #1448. It is the '''fourth and final''' book in the [[Cordina's Royal Family]] quartet.		'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a novel by [[Nora Roberts]] first published by '''Silhouette Books''' in '''2002''' as Silhouette Special Edition #1448. It is the '''fourth and final''' book in the [[Cordina's Royal Family]] quartet.

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	\| title =		\| title = Cordina's Crown Jewel
	\| author = Nora Roberts		\| author = Nora Roberts
	\| publisher =		\| publisher = Silhouette Books
	\| pub_date =		\| pub_date = February 2002
	\| format_code =		\| format_code = MM
	\| isbn10 =		\| isbn10 = 0373244487
	\| isbn13 =		\| isbn13 = 9780373244485
	\| series =		\| series = Cordina's Royal Family
	\| book_number =		\| book_number = 4
	\| preceded_by =		\| preceded_by = The Playboy Prince
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			'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a novel by [[Nora Roberts]] first published by '''Silhouette Books''' in '''2002''' as Silhouette Special Edition #1448. It is the '''fourth and final''' book in the [[Cordina's Royal Family]] quartet.

	~~'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is~~ a ~~novel by~~ [[~~Nora Roberts~~]] ~~first published by '''Publisher'''~~ in ~~'''Year'''~~. ~~It is the '''X''' book in~~ the [[~~Series~~]].		== Overview ==
			Overwhelmed by the demands of royal life and a relentless press, [[Camilla de Cordina\|Princess Camilla de Cordina]] impulsively cuts her hair, adopts the name Camilla MacGee, and slips away from her family for a few weeks of anonymity in America. A car accident during a Vermont thunderstorm strands her on the doorstep of reclusive archaeologist [[Delaney Caine]], setting off a romance neither of them expects — and a reckoning, once her true identity comes to light, over trust, title, and what each is willing to give up for the other.

	== ~~Overview~~ ==		== Plot summary ==
			After a grueling charity gala in Washington, D.C., Camilla de Cordina — eldest of the new generation of Cordinian princesses and the most publicly recognizable, owing to her American father and time spent in the States — decides she can no longer bear being defined by the press and her royal duties. With help from her best friend and personal assistant, [[Marian Breen]], she cuts off her long hair, takes Marian's rental car, and drives off under the name Camilla MacGee, telling the press only that she is on holiday in Europe.

			Traveling alone through the mid-Atlantic and New England states, Camilla revels in ordinary life — diners, cheap motels, anonymity — while confiding her observations to a journal. Cutting through Vermont during a violent summer storm, she swerves to avoid a deer and drives her car into a ditch. She is rescued by Delaney "Del" Caine, a gruff, injured archaeologist recovering at his family's rundown cabin after a Jeep accident on a Florida dig left him with a dislocated shoulder, broken clavicle, and bruised ribs. Unable to reach a tow truck in the storm, Camilla stays the night, and — introducing herself only as "Camilla Breen" — ends up staying on as Del's assistant, tidying his cabin, cataloging his notes, and nursing his injuries while he finishes his fieldwork reports.

	~~<!-- One or~~ two ~~paragraph spoiler-free overview~~ of the ~~novel~~. ~~-->~~		Despite Del's prickly, solitary temperament and Camilla's initial exasperation with him, the two grow close over weeks of shared work and proximity, eventually becoming lovers. Camilla, aware she is falling in love, keeps putting off telling Del the truth about her identity. The secret comes out when Del overhears her speaking to Marian by phone and pieces together who she really is. Feeling deceived, he lashes out, accusing her of slumming with "the locals," and Camilla — wounded and ashamed — flees back to Cordina without leaving a word.

	~~== Plot summary ==~~		Del's parents, [[Niles Caine\|Niles]] and [[Alice Caine]] — the Earl and Countess of Brigston, making Del himself Lord Delaney, Viscount Brigston, a fact he had never bothered to mention — arrive at the cabin and learn what happened. Alice, having separately received a gracious note from [[Gabriella de Cordina\|Gabriella]] thanking Del for his hospitality to her daughter, quietly arranges for the family to be invited to Cordina's Autumn Ball, both to secure new funding for Del's Bardville dig (funding Camilla has arranged) and to push the two reunited.

	~~<!-- Comprehensive plot summary~~. ~~-->~~		Reunited at the palace as the Earl and Countess's son, "Lord Delaney," Del and Camilla circle each other with wounded pride through days of royal functions, each too stubborn to make the first move. During the Autumn Ball, tempers flare again in the garden, with Camilla accusing Del of cowardice and Del accusing her of running from every difficulty in her life, including him. That night, in a driving rainstorm, Del rappels down the palace wall to Camilla's terrace, and the two finally admit how much they've hurt each other and how much they love one another. Del proposes; Camilla accepts, planning to divide her time between her royal duties, Del's excavation, and a Paleolithic project of her own with Dr. Lesuer in France, having found in archaeology the personal passion she'd been searching for all along.

	== Major characters ==		== Major characters ==
	* [[~~Character~~]]		* [[Camilla de Cordina]]
	* [[~~Character~~]]		* [[Delaney Caine]]
	* [[~~Character~~]]		* [[Marian Breen]]
			* [[Gabriella de Cordina]]
			* [[Reeve MacGee]]
			* [[Niles Caine]]
			* [[Alice Caine]]
			* [[Alexander de Cordina]]
			* [[Eve de Cordina]]
			* [[Bennett MacGee]]
			* [[Adrienne de Cordina]]

	== Locations ==		== Locations ==
	* [[~~Location~~]]		* [[Cordina]]
	* [[~~Location~~]]		* [[Washington, D.C.]]
			* [[Vermont]]
			* [[Virginia]] (MacGee family farm)
			* [[France]] (Lower Paleolithic dig site)
			* [[Florida]] (Bardville archaeological project)

	== Families ==		== Families ==
	* [[~~Family~~]]		* [[de Cordina family]]
			* [[MacGee family]]
			* [[Caine family]]

	== Timeline ==		== Timeline ==
			''Cordina's Crown Jewel'' closes out the [[Cordina's Royal Family]] quartet, following the marriages chronicled in ''Affaire Royale'' (Gabriella and Reeve), ''Command Performance'' (Alexander and Eve), and ''The Playboy Prince'' (Bennett and Hannah). It is set roughly four years after the death of Camilla's grandfather, the previous ruler of Cordina, and takes place primarily over one summer and into the following autumn's Cordina Autumn Ball.
	~~<!-- Where this book falls within its series~~ and~~/or shared chronology~~. ~~-->~~

	== Connections ==		== Connections ==

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			* Continues the [[Cordina's Royal Family]] series, featuring [[Gabriella de Cordina]], [[Reeve MacGee]], [[Alexander de Cordina]], [[Eve de Cordina]], and [[Bennett MacGee]] from the earlier books in the quartet.
			* References the historical kidnapping and assassination attempts against the royal family depicted in earlier Cordina novels.
			* Introduces the Caine/Brigston family as new in-laws to the de Cordina/MacGee family.

	== Themes ==		== Themes ==

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			* Identity beyond public role or title
			* The tension between duty and personal passion
			* Trust and honesty in relationships
			* Class and rank as obstacles to intimacy

	== Publication history ==		== Publication history ==
	* Original publication:		* Original publication: Silhouette Special Edition #1448, February 2002
	* Hardcover:		* Hardcover: Thorndike Press (large print), 2002
	* Paperback:		* Paperback: Silhouette Books, 2002; Harlequin/Silhouette reissue
	* Audio:		* Audio:
	* Ebook:		* Ebook: St. Martin's Publishing Group, June 2, 2020

	== Trivia ==		== Trivia ==

	<!-- Interesting behind-the-scenes facts or notable information. -->		<!-- Interesting behind-the-scenes facts or notable information. -->
			* Concludes the four-book "Cordina's Royal Family" series that began with ''Affaire Royale''.
			* The book's title plays on the press nickname given to Camilla, "Cordina's crown jewel."

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[~~Series~~]]		* [[Cordina's Royal Family]]
	* [[Nora Roberts Bibliography]]		* [[Nora Roberts Bibliography]]

	== References ==		== References ==
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