Chapter Four

While Francis was waiting in his study waiting on the news of his wife and is soon to be born child unable to any work; in the bedroom, the physician says to Marie, "your highness on the next contraction, I need you to give it all you can and push". With the deep breath that Marie had drawn, the people in the room knew that a contraction was coming. Marie pressed her head down to her chest and bore down as hard as she could. "That's it, keep it going. Keep it going." With a gasp the tired Marie leaned against her mother-in-law. "The head is out, stop pushing. I need you to pant ok?" The Princess did as she was told. A minute later Marie could feel another contraction coming as the Royal Physician said to her "Alright Princess Marie, last push" Marie cried out in pain as she pushed as hard as she could.

Two minutes later came a quiet and small cry as the Crown Princess asked to look at her newborn child. Her child was passed to her just as her husband was coming in to the room. The Physician said to both of them "it's a boy!" Francis and Marie said to the physician "we want to call him Henry". Just then The king hobbled into the room after finding out that his daughter-in-law had given birth to a boy. "well done to the both of you."

A week later through the radio the king said to his country "I am very pleased to announce that my son, Prince Francis and his wife Princess Marie, has had a son named Henry. He is very healthy and has a good pair of lungs!"