The Unfaithful Queen: A Novel Of Henry VIII's Fifth Wife - Plot & Excerpts
The king had taken many in our household with him, and expected to be gone for several days. “Dear Joan!” I burst out when she was shown into my bedchamber. “I am so very glad to see you!” She knelt, then rose at my signal and looked at me quizzically. “And why is that, pray, Your Highness, when you have seen me so recently? I am one of your chamberers, after all. And you have not been away from the palace very long.” We sat together companionably, I on the edge of my bed, Joan on a soft cushion. “I have no one else to talk to—about certain things. And you are very knowledgeable.” She continued to regard me with her level gaze. “First, I must tell you that I am not with child, and never really thought that I was.” She nodded. “I knew you were dissembling. Your face did not fill out, your cheeks didn’t become plumper as they would have had you been telling the truth. Also you lacked the glow of the woman with child. I know those signs—and I saw immediately that you lacked them.”
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