A Royal Story

Chapter 51

I want to apologize so much for not updating in 9 months, it's a small chapter but others will follow, really sorry, I sort of had a writers block but since so many people like this story I will try my best to please you all ❤ lots of love and stay safe! - Ceph

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Having a baby, I knew, would be hard work, but now having amazingly sweet and cute twins, was going to be even harder work, and I was then thousand percent ready for it, I knew I could count on Harry. But I of course didn't count on this plague, that quiet frankly was being a pain in everyone's butt. 

Covid had hit some members of the family and luckily neither Harry or me had caught it, we were trying to be so careful, I hadn't had a proper outing with the twins yet and it was kind of frustrating, but it was completely out of the question to go out with everything going on.

With time finally, everything started to go back to normal, and the twins were already a year old. I was sitting in one of the sitting rooms at home when Harry entered the room and sat beside me as I watched pictures of the twins when they were newborns.

"Times flies." I tell him closing the photo album and resting my head on his shoulder, I looked up at him he had this amazing smile on, that always made my heart flutter and fall in love with him all over again,

"It definitely does, how are you feeling?" Harry asked me while brushing my hair slowly, I looked back up at him and just tried to smile at him, 

"I will be fine, I am fine, I am happy to have my first assignment with Kate, since the whole Covid thing, I haven't been on any royal duty since I had the twins, and I can't help but feel like I am letting people down." I said looking down at my hands, he put his hand under my chin and made me look up at him, and he kissed my lips softly,

"Honey you did so much from home, and you also have the twins I mean it's not nothing." he tells me and I knew he was right. Harry has been summoned a lot to Buckingham lately, since the passing of Prince Philip the Queen has been really sad and we can all feel that she doesn't have the same strength as before which is totally understandable.

The only problem is that she is stubborn because she always says that she pledged her life to her country and her people, until death takes her, but seeing all the conditions now, it is also not a good idea for her to be walking around meeting new people and all those things, she is after all a very fragile person, health-wise . 

Another problem at hand, that the Queen confessed to me and Kate, that she probably shouldn't have, and which I think was more a slip up than anything else was to tell us that she didn't want to see Charles become King. She loves him it's just, she thinks he is not fitted to be King nor he has the right conditions to be one. He makes her think too much of her uncle, that abandoned the throne for a divorced woman. Also let's not talk about the fact that he was helping the Germans during the Second World War, and wanted his brother killed to take his place and be King again. Talk about family drama...

Me and Kate had been keeping this secret for so long, but with everything happening we do feel like our husbands should know. Above all William, since he is the future King after his father. So today we decided that we would have a lunch at our place and just talk to them.

As soon as they arrived, the kids went to play with the twins with the nanny near by, while us four adults went to the living room area and I sat on a couch one leg under my bum and the other one dangling from the couch, not really princess like but hey, I am home.

Kate sat next to me, and looked at me and I was already feeling nervous, and I could feel her be nervous too. I took my glass of wine and sipped a little bit, taking a cracker from the tray and eating it, I really didn't want to have this conversation.

"Look boys, we actually have something to tell you." Kate started and the look on those two grown ups faces was priceless,

"Oh gosh what did we do?" William asked looking at both Kate and me, I couldn't help but laugh at little, they both sat down on the couch in front of us,

"Look we all know and see that granny is not fit to hold on, on the crown anymore, I mean she is crazy tired and since the passing of Philip it hasn't been easy on her, he really was her rock." Kate started, William had his eyes wide at the bluntness of his wife,

"She is right and we know something that you guys should know." I continue, fidgeting with my hands,

"I guess, it slipped she probably didn't want to tell us or I don't know." I started and was cut off by Harry,

"Trust me if she didn't want to tell you guys she wouldn't have, now what's going on love?" he said looking at me, with concern, I looked over to Kate and she just nodded towards me, so I guess I was the one who had to break it down to them,

"Your grandma doesn't want Charles to be King." I tell them, and their faces was priceless, their eyes went wide and their mouth agape, the whole demeanour of the room changed and I felt highly uncomfortable,

"Did she just tell you that like that?" William asked looking at me than at his wife once she started to nod her head,

"Is that why you weren't feeling well all this time? You were holding this inside?" Harry asked getting up and coming towards me, I just nodded and he hugged me tightly,

"Oh my love, you should have said it sooner, I hate to see you like that." I just smiled a bit at him, William went and did the same to Kate, I was feeling relieved because now it wasn't my problem anymore, was it?