March 11th 1503
King and Queen's Chambers, Greenwich Palace, England
Queen Genevieve Tudor nee Trastámara POV
Being 14 as my birthday is November twenty-first and eight months pregnant is no walk in the park. At least Arthur shall wait for my sixteenth birthday to get me pregnant again. And that is a year away and shall give me a break.
Just then, I feel the babes move and I cannot help but to smile at the movement.
''Deep in the meadow, under the willow, a bed of grass, a soft green pillow, lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes. And when they open, the sun will rise. Here it's safe and here it's warm, here the daisies guard you from every harm. Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, here is the place where I love you. Deep in the meadow, hidden far away, a cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray. Forget your woes and let your troubles lay, when again it's morning, they'll wash away. Here it's safe and here it's warm, and here the daisies guard you from every harm. And here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true. Here is the place where I love you. Here is the place where I love you.'' I sing to my children.
I see little Arthur and Henry asleep and I go to get out of the nursery when a contraction hits me and I have to stifle a scream as a Lady-in-Waiting takes me to the birthing chambers and I am laid on the bed and I don't have to stifle my screams anymore as I feel my body pushing.
I push for three hours and birth three princes and two princesses. I then rest as my body needs it. Arthur comes in and sees our babes.
''They are precious my love. The first born (mini Arthur) shall be named Edmund, Duke of Somerset. The second shall be named Philip (mini male Genevieve), Duke of Pembroke, and the third prince shall be named Eric (combo), Duke of Kent.'' Arthur says.
''And our firstborn daughter shall be named Elizabeth (mini Catherine), Princess Royal and our second born shall be Princess Colleen.'' I say.
Arthur has a bright smile and cradles our daughters and looks at them with the same pride he shows our sons and I am glad that I get a reprieve.
I know that Catalina, while heavily and healthily pregnant shall deliver soon and then her sentence shall be carried out.
Tower of London
April 10th 1503
Catalina Trastámara POV
I scream as I birth five sons and a daughter. I see who i believe is Elizabeth Boleyn but in actuality is Thomas' new wife Arietta Boleyn coming to visit Thomas and I hypnotize her to act as me as I glamour us to look like each other and I 'remarry' Thomas. I tell the guards that he told me that he was under Catherine's spell and it can only be broken by her death.
''Catalina's'' death is carried out right away into children taken to Edward, their father and Thomas is released to me as it is found that he indeed was under Catalina's control.
I am now Catherine Boleyn nee Trastámara as I am thought to be dead and was divorced from Edward. Thomas' true wife is dead even though Arietta Boleyn dead, no one knows as they think I am Arietta Boleyn and that shall stay that way as I want to live and not be beheaded by my dear sister and brother in law. I make love to Thomas, getting pregnant with his heir as he only has two daughters and no sons that i know of as I know the truth about Alexander.
Anna, named after her stepsister comes to me and gives me a hug thanking her Mama for realizing her Papa was under the control of a witch, while Maria can probably sense something, since she does not want to be near me.
I see Thomas's sixteen-year-old daughter by his first wife, Diana Boleyn nee McLeod. Dana Boleyn is the dark-haired beauty of the family and I have a plan for her. She shall become the Queen of France and give the King an heir before his untimely death of old age.
Of course, the French won't suspect that their King would be poisoned by his young bride after she has delivered his only son.
I spell young Dana to want to be Queen of France and to do anything to give Louis the XII an heir to the throne, even if it means sleeping with his brother or cousin.
I have a friend in France, who knows my idea and poisons Queen Anne of France. the poison works and kills her. I arrange for us to go to France and there, Dana shall attract Louis' attention and soon after, become Queen and then, after Dana serves her purpose, I will kill her, making her leave a will that states that I shall raise her child as Regent Queen.
Edward Stafford POV
I see my sons and daughter and do not branded as bastards just because of their mother's crime. I name them Arthur (combo), George (male Catherine), Phillip (mini Edward), Anthony (looks like Richard III), William (combo), and Mary (looks like Isabella). I beg my cousin to ask the other Royals and the Pope to reconsider.
He writes to them and for weeks there no respond and I worry they will deny it.
On the 28th, we get responses and they say that they can be considered be conceived in good faith and thus, none of my children shall be branded bastards. I breathe a sigh of relief and do not plan to marry until the six months have passed.
I hear the Boleyn's are in France and that Dana has caught the French King's attention. I worry as something seems wrong but I cannot place what. Arthur and Genevieve tell me that it's probably me being paranoid due to Catherine and I realize that they are correct and I soothe my nerves with tea.
I look at my babes and I calm down more as they don't need a paranoid father. I just need to come to terms of what Catherine has done.
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