5. The White Princess by Philippa Gregory

Author:Philippa Gregory [Gregory, Philippa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780857207524
Google: nLZCmQEACAAJ
Amazon: 1451626096
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2013-07-22T23:00:00+00:00

Because so many have the pox in London we don’t hold a big christening, and I am churched privately and return to my rooms and to the life of the court without a great feast. I know also that Henry is not going to waste money on celebrating the birth of a princess. He would have had a public holiday and wine flowing in the public fountains for another boy.

‘I’m not disappointed in a girl,’ he assures me as he meets me in the nursery and I find him with the precious baby in his arms. ‘We need another boy, of course, but she is the prettiest daintiest little girl that was ever born.’

I stand at his shoulder and look into her face. She is like a little rosebud, like a petal, hands like little starfish and fingernails like the tiniest shells ever washed up by a tide.

‘Margaret for my mother,’ Henry says, kissing her white-capped little head.

My cousin Maggie steps forwards to take the baby from us. ‘Margaret for you,’ I whisper to her.

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