The King's Curse by Gregory Philippa

Author:Gregory,Philippa
Language: eng, eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Touchstone

Greenwich Palace, London,

Christmas 1529

Dressed in her best gown, wrapped in furs, I take Princess Mary by royal barge down the river to Greenwich for Christmas and we go straight to her mother’s rooms.

The queen is waiting for us. Her ladies smile as Princess Mary runs through the presence chamber into the private rooms and mother and daughter hold each other tightly, as if they cannot bear to be parted ever again.

Katherine looks over her daughter’s bowed head to me, and her blue eyes are filled with tears. ‘Why, Margaret, you are raising a beauty for me,’ she says. ‘Merry Christmas, my dear.’

I am so moved by the sight of the two of them, together after such a long time, that I can barely reply.

‘Are you all right?’ is all that the little princess asks her mother, pulling back to look at her weary face. ‘Mama? Are you all right?’

She smiles, and I know that she is going to lie to her daughter, as we do these days. She is going to tell a brave lie in the hope that this little girl will grow to be a woman without the heartbreak of knowing that her father is wrong in his thoughts and wrong in his life and wrong in his faith.

‘I am very well,’ she says emphatically. ‘And more importantly, I am sure that I am doing the right thing in the sight of God. And that must make me happy.’

‘Does it?’ the little princess asks doubtfully.

‘Of course,’ her mother says.

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