We Three Queens
Chapter 4 is here xxxxxx
"Your Majesty?" Charles entered Henry's room, to see his friend sat on the ornate chair, Mistress Seymour on his lap. At first, he thought they were in a passionate embrace, but as he moved closer, he could see Henry whispering in her ear, and Jane crying silently. "Henry?" Henry turned his head towards his friend's voice, and Charles was quite shocked to see his face red and puffy too. He knew Henry cared about Catherine, but he knew he didn't love her at the time of her death. "Charles." He said in a constricted voice, before turning back to look at Jane, to find she was sleeping. He stood up before turning and laying her gently on the bed. He then turned back to his friend. "Henry, The Cardinal requests your presence." Charles used the King's name, but in the present climate, he didn't really care.
"Your Majesty simply must listen to me! The death of the Queen leaves the Princess Mary as your heir! You must secure a male heir to the throne." Thomas Wolsey tried in vain to make the King listen to him. Henry seemed to snap out of his thoughts at that point. "Very well Thomas, I will remarry." His daydream of marrying his sweet Jane was brought back to Earth with an unpleasant bump when the Cardinal announced, "I will send for the Lady Anne immediately."
"What? The Lady Anne?" Henry's thoughts strayed to the exotic beauty, Anne Boleyn, she wasn't really what he was looking for in a wife. She was bold and spoke her mind, which was not what a true wife should do.
"Yes, Your Majesty, the Lady Anne of Cleves. The one we were discussing." Henry had heard something about this Anne of Cleves, she was a Lutheran Princess.
"No Thomas, I already have a bride picked out."
"Really Sire?"
"The Lady Jane Seymour." Thomas' face fell. He knew something about the Lady Jane that he promised not to tell anyone. He couldn't tell the King, but he couldn't allow him to marry her either. But the King seemed dead set on marrying her, and when the King is dead set on some thing, it's hard to change his mind.
SO, i'm thinking I should get a beta, if I should, would any of you be willing to be my beta? xxxxxxxx