The Royal Family

All I could hear was the wailing of my newborn. "What is it?" "It's a boy your majesty" "a boy" "Yes your grace" "Someone must tell my husband." "we have sent your messenger to him at once. He should be here soon, you should rest your grace" "I will rest after he comes" "Yes your majesty" she bowed and retreated back to her seat. "Lady Mother?" "Yes dear, I'm here" "With your permission I would like to name him Arthur" "That would be a wonderful idea my dear. You have my permission" "HIS MAJESTY, THE KING!" he was announced to the room and everyone bowed when he came through the doors and everyone went to retreat back to court but he turned to face them. "I would like to thank all of you for keeping my wife and son safe during the birth, you all will be rewarded for this." "They all bowed again and left us alone. "My most beautiful wife, you have graced us with a son, finally. What shall we name him?" "I was talking to my mother and I'd like to name him after my father, King Arthur" "I think that is a wonderful name for our first son and the next king of England. He shall be christened and shown to the people of England in the next two weeks and you shall show them that we finally have a prince. I don't want them with their nursemaids, at least not while we are on progress." "That sounds like a wonderful idea, when will he be christened?" "Tomorrow, now who will be his godparents?" "Elizabeth, Logan, and Alexander" "Of course my queen" "And what will you tell the court?" "I will tell them a great prince has been born and their queen will be back to court in a few days. I will send your ambassadors to every country in the world and tell them of our son and everyone will want to marry their daughters to him. Now my dear you must rest and I'll be back soon." He walked to the door and before he left he looked over to our son and the greatest smile I had ever seen appeared on his face and then he left to tell the whole world that we bore a son, finally. After three princesses we finally have a prince. "Your grace?" "Oh, Ruby. What is it?" "The princesses are wondering if they might come visit you and the little prince." "Oh of course, let them in" she opened the door wider and my daughters came in, bowed, and ran to my bed. "Oh mother we are so happy you are okay. Nothing went wrong did it?" "No my dear Emily, the little prince is safe in his cradle and me in my bed. Don't worry so much my dear, you are just like your aunt Elizabeth, always worrying." "Where is Aunt Elizabeth?" Isabelle asked. "She went back to court, she must stand by her husband's side. Lord Darnley is very wealthy and he is high in favor." "What have you named our brother?" "He has been named Arthur, after your grandfather." "What was he like mother?" "Oh he was a wonderful man, he was kind and gentle and merciful. I was his favorite and we would play throughout the castle and his privy council would get so angry" "They got angry with the king? How did grandfather let that happen? He was the king" "He was supposed to be doing paperwork about the country but he would play with his daughters instead. Oh and my mother would get so angry with him too. She always said his duty was to his country and not his family. His country came first in her mind but we came first in his. He was the kindest man in all the world." "Until you met daddy?" "Of course until I met your father. I fell in love with him the moment I saw him." "When will you come back to court?" "A day or two after Arthur is christened and then we are to go on progress." "All of us?" "All of us. We are to show England that we are the royal family and no one can take that from us." "When will we see you?" "I shall be with you the whole time." "Really?" "Yes, we shall do many things. You all will get new dresses, Emily you shall get a new horse, Isabelle you shall be taught to hawk, and Mary you shall learn to ride your new pony. It will be great fun." The girls were giggling because they were so excited. "Ruby?" "Yes your grace?" "Please send a letter to the seamstress and tell her we need her to come right away to get new dresses made up for the princesses, and me and my ladies." "Yes your majesty." "She bowed and exited the room as quickly as she could. "Ella?" "Yes your grace. Please take the girls out to the gardens today and tell Ruby to also tell the seamstress that I would like her to come see me as soon as she comes to court." "Yes your grace." She bowed and took the girls to their rooms to get them ready for their studies. Finally alone. *knock knock* "Enter" Elizabeth walked through the door as if sneaking so no one would see her. "Elizabeth, what are you doing?" "I didn't want anyone to see me, the king has ordered everyone to stay away from your rooms so you could rest but I had to see you and our little prince. I'm sorry I could not have been there for the birth but my husband banned me from coming, he thinks that your birth to the prince will bring some negativity to my womb where our baby grows." "Oh for heaven sake, that is ridiculous. How could something negative come from our little Prince Arthur?" "Arthur? After father?" "Yes, he is to be the greatest king England has ever seen. And he was a prince, nothing bad would come of that." "Of course sister, I do not know what he was thinking. Lady Mother tells me the birth went smoothly?" "Yes, I hardly remember anything at all. I remember the pain starting then mother saying something to me and then I had Arthur in my arms." "Mother is very good at this, she went through this many times. Will you have the King's mother in the room the next time?" "No she shall stay in the country" "Margaret that's considered an insult to the king!" "No it is not, the king and I have already talked about it. His mother and father are to stay in the country for the rest of their lives until they die. When you make a threat against the Queen of England that is a threat to the King and the country. I am the one that put the King on his throne and I can just as easily take it away. He runs the country when I am in bed with child but other than that I am heir to the throne. If his parents want to make threats against their queen then they shall stay confined, they are lucky I did not put them in the tower for treason. They should be happy their oldest son became king and their grandchildren are princes and princesses. They will get nowhere with threats." "Well that seems kind of you, just like father." "Really? You think so? I do so try to be" "Yes indeed you are his daughter. He always knew you would do great things and so you have. My big sister all grown up, now the queen of England." "You have done great for yourself also sister. Married to the man you love and carrying his child, hopefully a son." "I suppose so, I never did want to be Queen anyways, with everyone's eyes on me and my children." "Yes it is hard. So is he with anyone?" "A few rumors of him being with Lady Diane but I have never seen them in one another's presence. She is always with her brother and he is with your privy council. I wouldn't be too worried." "Oh I'm not worried, I know he will come back to me once I am back at court. He is my husband and I his wife, we married for love and unlike most people here at court we still love one another. We will be in one another's bed until we die. Oh I also wanted to tell you that we are to go on progress and shall get new gowns for it. If you could tell my other ladies that Madame La Blanche is coming in a few days to fit us for dresses and we must be ready for it" "Yes sister I will tell them. You should rest, I will go back to court and tell your ladies" "Thank you Elizabeth for never leaving my side." She bowed and backed out of the room. "Mother!" Mary yelled coming into my rooms. "What is it my little duchess?" "Ruby wants me to study! I do not want to! I want to stay here with you!" "Don't you want to be very smart one day just like me and be Queen?" "Yes" "Well my dear, if you want that then you must study and do your schoolwork. You will be a wonderful Queen one day and you must learn as much as you can. Now go with Ruby and do your schoolwork" "Yes mother" She got up off the bed and went with Ruby to her rooms. I went back to looking at my son, the prince of England. It will be a wonderful day when he becomes king.