Queen's Secret by Jean Plaidy

Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Historical, C429, Extratorrents, Kat, Romance
ISBN: 9780399135316
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1989-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I went into the wardrobe room. Owen was sitting at a table writing.

“Have you heard the news about the King of Scotland?” I asked.

Owen said he had not.

“You will. The whole Court will be talking about it. He is a very happy man today. Do you know, a treaty has been signed between the Scots and the English? He is going back to Scotland with the Lady Jane.”

“That is wonderful news,” said Owen. “Indeed, the King of Scotland must this day be a very happy man.”

“Happiness shines out of them both. I am afraid I am a little envious of them.”

“All the world is envious of lovers.”

“You too?”

“Everyone, madam.”

“I am ashamed of myself.”

“Your Grace should not be.”

“But I am, Owen. I say to myself, why should this happen to them when I…oh…I think Jane Beaufort is one of the truly fortunate women.”

He was standing before me, and suddenly he put out his hand and touched mine.

“I understand,” he said.

I said in an embarrassed voice: “You see…I was never loved wholeheartedly. Henry loved his battles more.”

“He was a great king.”

“James is a king.”

“It is different.”

I shook my head. “No, Owen, it is just true love and…half love. That is the difference. I have never been loved as Jane is. I have never been loved as my little Henry is loved. My mother gave me no love. I and my brothers and sisters were just encumbrances in her life to be sent off to live in near squalor…out of her life…out of her thoughts. We were of no importance to her. Then I was married and I was happy. I had dreams…but dreams are…only dreams. What was I to Henry? A means of bringing harmony between our two countries…a line in a treaty.”

“It was not so,” said Owen. “He cared for you deeply.”

“He cared for his conquests more. James cares nothing for anything but Jane. That is how I would be loved.”

Then he said a strange thing! “My lady, perhaps you are.”

I looked at him in silence. Then suddenly he bowed and, turning, left me alone in that room.

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