Chapter 16

I woke up feeling excited, this was my first day as queen. I did not know what to expect, I got up early despite staying up late the night before. I walked to the balcony and stared at my garden, wondering what the day had in store for me.

Cora came into the room with my breakfast and helped me get dressed. I decided to wear a navy blue dress and the pearl necklace that Norton and Mary Terese Caldwell gave me at the coronation.

Once I was ready, Cora led me to the Queen's Hall. As Gregory had explained to me, that room was the place where I would attend to my affairs. Many people would come to visit me and ask for things from me, they would try to win my sympathy so that when the king denied them something I would support them and persuade him to change his mind. My poor subjects had no idea that it was useless, I had no influence over my husband and I would never have it. I was just anot