Tudor 07 - The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory

Author:Philippa Gregory
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I am to take a new young woman into my care in the princess’s household. Lady Margaret Douglas, the commoner daughter of the king’s sister the Dowager Queen of Scotland. She was Cardinal Wolsey’s ward and now has to live somewhere. The king chooses to put her in our household, living with our princess, under my care.

I welcome her with pleasure. She is a pretty girl, sixteen this year, desperate to be at court, eager to grow up. I think she will make a charming companion for our princess, who is naturally serious and sometimes, in these hard days, troubled. But I hope that her wardship is not a sign to me that the importance of the princess is being diminished. I take my worries to the queen’s chapel, kneeling at her altar and looking at the golden crucifix gleaming with rubies, and I pray, wordlessly, that the king has not sent one girl who is half Tudor and half commoner into the house of a princess because he may one day argue she is the same: half Tudor, half Spanish, and no royal heir.

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