Wanted a Royal Wife by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-908411-22-8
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

They arrived breathlessly back at the Palace.

As they were feeling hot after riding so fast, the two girls went at once upstairs to change.

They put on thin muslin dresses and hurried down to breakfast.

Latasha was just finishing her coffee when an aide-de-camp entered to inform her that the Head Gardener was waiting for her as she had requested.

She only kept him for a few minutes.

When she went outside, she found he was an elderly man who had been at the Palace for many years and he was to her relief most knowledgeable on flowers and herbs.

“What I require from you,” she said, speaking in his language, “is a plant that grows wild in England and is a common perennial herb.”

She saw that he was listening and so she continued,

“It is a wild variety of chrysanthemum, but I don’t know what it is called in this country. It has yellow-green leaves.”

The Head Gardener murmured to himself the word ‘chrysanthemum’ several times –

“I thinks I knows what you mean, my Lady. Come with me.”

He took her over several lawns bordered with huge flower beds ablaze with colour and then he opened an iron gate that led into what appeared to be an orchard.

There were many fruit trees in full blossom and the grass beneath them was bright with wild flowers.

Growing against one of the walls were the stems of what in England was called feverfew.

Latasha gave a cry of delight and she realised that the Head Gardener was surprised when she ran forward towards the plants.

“This is exactly what I want!” she cried. “This is what will cure His Royal Highness of his migraine.”

She thought that the Head Gardener did not seem at all impressed, so she added,

“I can assure you that my mother has given it to hundreds of people who suffer from headaches and migraine and they have all been cured.”

She then started to look for the smallest leaves that were just beginning to sprout.

The air was very warm in this part of the world, she thought, and the plants that did not appear until the autumn in England would now just be coming into flower.

She was not mistaken.

The leaves of the feverfew were peeping from the stems.

She found six feverfew plants, plucked a handful of leaves from them and told the Head Gardener,

“I promise you that His Royal Highness will benefit from these leaves and therefore it is essential that he should have them every day.”

“We’ll all do anything, my Lady, to help His Royal Highness back to health. I remembers him as a small boy, full of energy and stronger than any boy of his age and it’s so sad for us to see him as he is now.”

“If you now do as I tell you,” explained Latasha, “he will be a different man in a very short time.”

Carrying the small leaves in her hand she started to walk back to the Palace accompanied by the Head Gardner.

As they stepped into the garden, Latasha looked up at the trees.

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