2 chapter seven -talk of Alliance between princesses And queen

the next day after sending a messenger to the england palace queen called the josephine and katheleen .

In just a minute or two was a knock at the door , " come in " said queen knowing the is either josiphine or katheleen or both

and there stood josephine in a blue gown

and sat across queen

" mother you called me " in a straight voice

" yes but let your sister arrive " queen said

queen and josephine never had the best of relatioship as queen didnt like lady teresa the mistress of late king and was always rude tto her even when lady teresa never said a word against it , soon katheleen arrived with a smile

" mother you called " she said in an soft voice

" sit " said queen and katheleen took a sit on a single sitter sofa

" would you like some tea" queen said as she poured tea in 3 white with pink coloured cup

" no i am fine go on , as you have called us for an important disscusion

" yes she said as she stopped pouring the tea in the third cup and gave the other two , one to katheleen and one for herself

" King of england's letter came 2 days ago and he said he want an alliance with france with one of you two princess and whoever he find strong enough to be his queen in england so, but whoever is chosen by him would be the queen of france after me " she said as she sipped her tea

" i refuse to do this , we are no item he would chose from " said josephine

" princess josephine sometimes we need to things for our kingdom where we rule to keep us strong and i have already agreed to this as when scottland , france and england together would make i strong togethetand that is final "

" but mother what about scottland " asked katheleen

" the other princess would rule scottland " queen said

" very well then as you have already made a dicision , i would like to take my leave " said josephine and left in anger