《Reign: The Diary of A Princess》Hours Before The Wedding
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Today is the day of my mother's wedding to Lord Darnley. More guests arrived early, before the wedding ceremony. As I heard from my grandmother, she believes that she may have a way to get my mother out of this loveless marriage. Her plan is to shower the nobles and the leaders from around the world with jewels and money, placating them for coming to what turns out to be no wedding at all.
However, Mother realized that she couldn't call it off after all. I guess she already told Catherine that she was pregnant out of wedlock. She can't be a queen with an illegitimate child. She and my sibling would not be able to survive, let alone take the English throne. So, she was left with no choice but to marry Lord Darnley.
I passed by the garden, seeing Lady Greer and my mother. I went to see them to check on them. As I was already close to them, I heard that my mother told Lady Greer about her pregnancy.
"Hello there, am I interrupting something? " I laughed.
"No, Alex," the Queen said.
"Does she know? " Lady Greer asked her.
"That she's..."
"Yes"
"Oh my god! I'm so happy for you, Mary. "
"That was also my reaction." I laughed again.
"But how will you hide it?" Greer asked with a concerned look.
"It's just a week old. It won't show up for awhile, but after the wedding, like Catherine told me, I should already be planning for our honeymoon and wait for awhile to tell him and anyone else so that there will be no questions about my pregnancy. " My mother explained it to her.
"Yes, Catherine is correct." She nodded.
"Do what you need to do, mother."
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"I will help you. I went through that with your help. Now is the time to give back what you did. " She said, placing a hand on my mother's shoulder.
"Aww. Thank you, Greer."
I heard footsteps from afar going to us. I looked back and saw Rizzio.
"Rizzio." I acknowledged his presence.
"Princess Alexandra and Queen Mary"
"Oh, hello Rizzio! Ahh! I would like you to meet one of my ladies-in-waiting, a friend of mine, Lady Greer."
"Hello, Lady Greer! I'm Rizzio, Italian Financier"
"Greetings! Please do call me Greer. "
"Nice to meet you!"
"By the way, why are you here Rizzio?"
"Ah Mary, I need you"
"Why?"
"It's Darnley"
"Oh Darnley! What again? "
"He's drunk"
"Oh no"
"Don't tell me he's drunk while you're getting married," Greer said.
"I should go," my mother said.
"Oh no, when will he stop?!" I exclaimed.
"I'll grab the coffee for Darnley, Mary, and I'll bring it to you"
"Okay, thank you Greer."
"I'll go with you, mother."
"Okay, so shall we go now?"
We headed back inside to check on Lord Darnley's situation. He shouldn't be drinking; it's already hours before the wedding. Will he bring such embarrassment to the special event? When he went to his chambers, we saw an untidy and disarrayed Darnley. Lady Greer had already arrived with the coffee to help Lord Darnley recover from his inebriation.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Why the hell are you drinking, Darnley?" The Queen asked.
"Why do you care?"
"It's only hours till your wedding with Mary." Rizzio said as he shoved Darnley's head into a bucket of water with ice to clear his head.
"Stop it," Mother ordered, and she wiped the water off his face.
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"What are you doing? Since when did you care for me? "
"Darnley," she softly said. "Stop it. You need to be sober for our wedding. "
"Ah, our wedding! That's why I'm here. That's my purpose here, right? What am I to you? to all of you? some sort of prize? "
Rizzio shoved his head again. "When will he shut up?!" Rizzo added
"But Mary, I do like how you dress right now." He grinned at her while looking at her cleavage.
The queen felt a little disgusted by the look on her face, but didn't say anything. She just threw the towel in his face sarcastically and brushed it off.
"Oh Darnley", Rizzio gave Darnley the coffee to drink.
"You need to be sober, so get yourself up. Take a warm bath. Dress up and escort your fiancée to meet your guests. "
"Of course, anything for the Queen of Scots. Anything for Mary" He smirked and winked at my mother.
While Rizzio handled Darnley, he let us go downstairs to meet and entertain our guests while we waited for Lord Darnley.
My ladies came to me.
"Alex" One of my ladies called me.
"Yes, Ana?"
"Who's that?"
"Oh, I think he's Count Vincent."
"He's so young and dashing."
"Go talk to him."
"I will, but maybe later." We laughed at her.
"Alex, is that Prince Charles of the Netherlands?" Rebekah asked
"Yes, Bekah, you're right. He's a friend of mine, a former suitor but we remained friends."
"Oh, he's cute."
"Heads up though, we prefer Carter, his brother, rather than him. By "we", I mean the Queen of Scots, Queen Mother of France, the King of France and me. "
"Why so?"
"He's a bit rude. He's the exact opposite of Carter. "
"Really?"
"Oh, there's Princess Daniella! That's their sister. Why not ask her instead? "
I called Daniella to join us.
"Alexandra" Danielle smiled at us.
"Daniella, it was nice to see you again."
"Likewise,"
"By the way, these are my ladies-in-waiting. Lady Rebekah, Lady Isabel, Lady Anastacia, and Lady Antoinette"
"Pleasure to meet you, ladies."
"Our pleasure to meet you too" they said.
"So your brothers, how are they? Still the same as always, "she laughed and nodded at what I said. "Apparently, one of my ladies here would like to meet Prince Charles." I smiled.
"Alex!" Rebekah whispered.
"What?" I laughed.
"Oh, no worries. Come, I'll introduce you to my brother, but be careful, he's a bit up to no good. " Daniella said.
I winked at Rebekah.
"Ann"
"Yes?"
"Aren't you looking for someone here?"
"Isabel and I are still searching," Ann said.
"Well, I guess I know people that could be a perfect match for you guys."
"Who?"
"Hmm, Marco brought his advisor, a loyal friend of his, Lord Tristan. I bet he'll find you beautiful, Ann. "
"I do hope so"
"And for Isabel"
"I have this friend, also Scottish; he's Lord Marcus, a loyal mercenary to the crown."
"Mmm, I find his name cute." Belle said
"I'll introduce the both of you to them. Shall we go? " I asked, and they nodded.
It's a good thing the three of them— King Marco, Lord Tristan, and Lord Marcus are together. I introduced Isabel and Anastacia to Tristan and Marcus. They would make a good couple. It looked like they already liked each other, so I talked to Marco and bonded with him while they were talking.
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