Worth Dying for (The Bruce Trilogy)
“16 Edward II – Boulogne, 1308 Isabella. Isabella. Queen Isabella…Daughter of a king, soon to be the wife of one and someday, should God decree, the mother of yet another. Born in a royal bed and taken to one. She need do nothing but receive me when I will have her, bear me a son, steward my servants and otherwise keep from me. A pampered life. One I would have relished, had I been so inclined to compliancy. Both misfortune and ease in being born woman.I saw her for the first time in the cathedr...al at Boulogne. Between Bruce and his fractious rogues in Scotland and my English barons who nagged me to conclude my arranged union, this for now was the lesser of two evils. The documents had all been detailed, perused, re-penned, signed and sealed. Her dowry was already aboard ship. I was satisfied with her lineage as worthy of my own, pleased with the trinkets and property that came with her, but in the girl herself I was disappointed. Thirteen and by that age she should have had some budding to her bosom and broadening to her hips.MoreLess
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