Your Mightiness

24 years ago.

The Black Prince was still William III, and at that time there was neither August nor Raphael.There is only England with internal and external troubles, and increasingly serious class conflicts.At home, the mess left by his lover’s crimes during the reign of gay William II seems to never be resolved; abroad, there are both the Black Prince insisting on going his own way and launching the Anglo-French war with King Charles VI of France, as well as the war from the Holy See and Allah. tribute pressure.

Why is there the Holy See?

Because the Holy See in the Middle Ages was like a certain country in modern times. It claimed to be the world’s policeman, and it was everywhere.

As for Aragorn...

Here is an explanation. At the special historical stage of the end of the Middle Ages, England was not the most powerful country in Europe. Even if the king and people of England didn't think so, they couldn't change the reality.

There are two real superpowers, one is France and the other is Aragon & Castile (Spain).England has already fought with its enemy France, so naturally it can no longer offend Aragon, even if it does not form an alliance, at least it cannot push Aragon into the arms of France.

Fortunately, at this moment, Aragon and Castile are also in a mess because of the crazy girl Juana, and they are too busy to take care of themselves, and they don't want to have more enemies like England who have been trying to use their relatives to interfere in his family's internal affairs.

Cough, England is really annoying at this point, no matter which country it is with, it can get relatives, and then try to take over the throne of other countries as relatives.

But this is the case in all European countries, so don't make fun of the elder brother.

The king of Aragon had completely different ideas from the Black Prince on how to maintain the "friendship" with England. He felt that only marriage could make people feel at ease.

Since the Black Prince had no daughter or sister, the king of Aragon decided to marry his beloved youngest daughter to the Black Prince.This youngest daughter is the legendary Catherine of Aragon, who was later the biological mother of Miss Mary.The princess was young and beautiful, noble and elegant, like a rose with thorns. King Aragorn felt that no one would not love his daughter.

Then, King Aragorn was slapped in the face.

The Black Prince doesn't love Catherine of Aragon.Because the Black Prince has his own wife, Joan of Kent, who insists on refusing to marry some damn princess.

Neither the King of Aragon nor the nobles of England could understand the choice of the Black Prince.Just a small marriage can solve the biggest diplomatic problem between the two countries. Why doesn't the Black Prince agree?

For most aristocrats, marriage is more like a job and a family responsibility. No one will associate marriage with illusory love. Whether it is a gentleman or a lady, the more consideration is the amount of the other party's property. After marrying the other party, are the interests of the two parties consistent and whether they can be improved... There are even some old-fashioned people who will consider whether the blood is pure enough.

But no matter what, there are very few nobles with a love brain.Because most people regard love and marriage as two different things. They enjoy love and will not give up their right to marry. Most of the husband and wife have such a tacit understanding.

Let's put it this way, the couples in the upper class who are harmonious are often agreed from the very beginning to play their own way. Those who are always quarreling, on the contrary, still have some elements of love.For example, the most famous Queen of Castile, she loves her husband to the point of madness, and is even driven crazy by this tormenting love.

The black prince asked the nobleman who forced him in court: "It's not you who was forced to marry, of course you said it nicely. If you were forced to marry Catherine of Aragon, would you agree?"

The nobleman took it for granted: "Yes, why not?"

If either of them marrying Catherine of Aragon would solve the problem, would they have already?Marriage is a deal, my lord!

The black prince was so angry that he almost couldn't speak. He was too young at that time, and he hadn't had time to develop the natural old hooligan temperament that he later had.

But the black prince insisted on his principle - when a mudslide among such a group of unscrupulous nobles, he only likes one person in his life, and only intends to spend his life with this person, no one can persuade him.

That day, after hearing that Joan had received her family again, the black prince rushed into the queen's bedroom, fearing that Joan would be brainwashed by her group of dragging family members and would take the initiative to divorce him or something.The Black Prince can resist the opposition of the whole world for Joan, but if even Joan wants to leave him, then he really doesn't know what to do.

As soon as he entered the door, the black prince first stated his position to his queen: "Unless I die, I will not agree to the church's proposal that the marriage is illegal! Absolutely!"

To hell with the argument that "you can still be a mistress after a divorce"!

Queen Joan with long chestnut hair looked helplessly at her husband who seemed more mature than her most of the time, but naive a few times, and the other party was indeed much younger than her husband, and said helplessly: "It just so happens, I think so too."

If Joan was the kind of "high righteous" lady who could listen to what others said and "bear humiliation", she would not have such a ups and downs in her marriage history.She was loyal to her first husband not because of love, but because of commitment; it was not until she accompanied him back to heaven that she began to formalize her heart for the first time, trying to find a unique love.The Black Prince is the last chance God gave her, how could she just let it go?Unless she is stupid!

Of course, Joan actually did not hesitate. After all, some people's words are really unreasonable, such as - if you love him, do you have the heart to make him worry so much?Shouldn't you support his rule?

Joan was almost led away by the other party's strange logic.

It was a letter from Queen Isabella who persuaded Joan in time.

[Although I don't like you, I can't like you in this life, I, like Richard, always insist that my son deserves better people.

But I still have to say, you are the only person William loves deeply, the whole world can deny him, but you can't.Yes, I am such a double standard, only he abandons you, there is no possibility of you abandoning him.If you dare to dump him, I will make your life worse than death!

……

I also thought that marriage was a business, because isn't that what everyone does?I was married to England with the most innocent mind of a fool, but I almost regretted it the moment I met Wilhelm II for having his male lover stand openly at the wedding altar. It severely humiliated my dignity as a princess.But I put up with it.

——That was the stupidest decision I ever made in my life, I still want to smoke myself in retrospect!

They all say that marriage is the tomb of love. If you want me to say, marriage without love is the tomb. I believe you should have experienced that kind of coldness when you were with the Earl of Salisburg.

You will not be happy, and you will not see hope. Whenever the night is quiet, you will feel that you have been abandoned by the whole world.

As a mother, I can swear to you, if you let my son experience that kind of marriage, I will never, never let you go. 】The Queen Mother's letter can be said to be full of malice, and she didn't intend to hide it at all, but instead it aroused Joan's bellicose factor. She would never give up her husband, even if it was just to disgust the Queen Mother, she Will stay in the position of William's wife until death!

Cough, getting along with mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is a difficult problem that the whole world has been unable to solve for thousands of years.

"I just like you like this!" The black prince finally smiled happily, like a big boy who is about to get candy, when he is with Joan, he always has a very young mind, of course he is young himself.The boulder in his heart was finally put down, as if the black prince had opened up the two veins of Ren and Du, an idea suddenly came to him, and the seed was deeply buried in his heart, waiting quietly to take root and germinate.

However, before the seed grows, the Black Prince has to face a bad thing.

His younger brother Richard jumped out. At that time, the young Richard II was only the Duke of York. He was unmarried and liked to wear a white rose on his chest.

The meaning of Richard's entry into the palace is very clear, he fell in love with Catherine of Aragon, and he wanted to marry her.

"...Don't make trouble." The Black Prince was very helpless, his younger brother didn't even know what Catherine looked like before, so he fell in love with her?How did you fall in love and tell me?Do you use your mind?The black prince is very happy that his younger brother has grown up and learned to share the burden for him, but deep down in his heart he always feels that his younger brother should live a life of carefree life, "You should marry a girl you really love, or, Uh, boy, do what you want, but it has to be your love, you understand?"

In view of their common scumbag father William II, the Black Prince had to think more comprehensively, for fear that his brother would become a closet because of William II's behavior back then.The black prince thought very clearly that a person's life is only a few decades, there is no need to wrong him because of other people's opinions.The fact that William II was so vicious had something to do with the fact that he had to struggle to control his sexual orientation.

Richard is very helpless, although he is a bit melancholy, but this is a taste passed down from France, which does not mean that he is a gay, thank you!How did this stereotype come about?If it wasn't his brother who said this, he would have beaten him to death.

"I really like Princess Catherine, and I am willing to marry him." Duke Richard said.

The black prince asked back: "Then is he willing to marry you?"

The Black Prince's question was actually just to let his younger brother back out of difficulties. Who would have thought that Duke Richard might not be able to achieve anything in other areas in his life, but his skills in coaxing little girls are definitely full.Within a few months, Princess Catherine, who had traveled thousands of miles from Aragon to England, cried out that Duke Richard would not marry, for no reason, because of love.

Black Prince: "..."

Duke Richard entered the palace with arrogance, as if he had won a war: "Now can you agree to my marriage with Kate (Catherine's nickname)? I like her, and she loves me too. "

From these words, we can see the big problem, Richard is liking, Catherine is love.

"This is a lifetime event, do you want to..." the black prince earnestly said.

"Why are you such a mother-in-law?!" Duke Richard really didn't understand how his brother's character of being a father and a mother was formed.Richard, who has no awareness of the fact that he is a big trouble, has never thought that his brother's character formation may have a lot to do with him, "I don't care, I just want to marry Kate!"

In the end, the black prince could only agree to what his brother said was "once in a lifetime request".

But in his dream at midnight, the Black Prince strengthened his belief because of this - he wants to abdicate!Obviously his younger brother is more suitable to be a king than him. It can be seen from the matter of marriage that his younger brother is more responsible than him. (This is all a misunderstanding).

Well, it's such a happy decision.

Now that he is going to abdicate, the black prince has completely let himself go, and has done a lot of eye-opening things with a final crazy attitude that made the nobles want to shout "you can still play like this", etc. After finishing, the black prince was relieved, so he clapped his hands and said, um, abdicate.

Just at this time, as if blessed by God, the English royal family, who was almost about to imitate the French royal family, finally had good news.

Richard's wife, Duchess Catherine, is pregnant!

The black prince almost cried with joy, he had already given up hope on having a child, in other words, his brother's child is his child, so happy~ circle around~(≧▽≦)/~

This is obviously a sign from God. You see, your brother has an heir. Should you abdicate before the child is born?

retreat!retreat!retreat!

The Black Prince also used the good news of his sister-in-law's pregnancy to welcome his self-exiled mother back to London.The confrontation between mother and child back then is vivid, and it left a scar on each other's hearts.But in fact, the Black Prince didn't care about it long ago, because... the one who gave him the ability to fight back was his queen mother. If there was no Queen Isabella, the Black Prince would not be able to play against William II at all. He fought all the way from France back to England , the ones who contributed the most were the Queen Mother and her military lover.

The age for the black prince to become king is really too young, and there is nothing wrong with the queen dowager supervising the country.The only thing the queen mother did wrong was to almost repeat the mistake of William II-letting her lover rush to England.

The black prince had no choice but to revolt again and killed his mother's lover.

But other than that, there is actually no contradiction between the black prince and the queen mother.The black prince was indeed angry with the queen mother. For a long time, he couldn't let go of why his mother became like his father and was fooled by her lover.

But as August said, he will definitely be angry, but in the end...he will definitely forgive, because they are a family.

On the contrary, the Queen Mother could not get out of the shadow of the past. She felt that she was not a responsible mother. In the early years, she almost killed her youngest son because of constant compromises. She almost lost her eldest son, whom she had placed high hopes on, which made her unable to forgive herself no matter what.

The Black Prince couldn't quite understand his mother's delicate heart, he only thought that Isabella was still angry at him for killing her and her lover's child.

Yes, the Queen Mother did have a child with her lover, the Earl of March.But the child had a miscarriage when he was still in the queen mother's womb, and the black prince always thought that it was because he led the troops to surround the castle too forcefully, which caused the tragedy.

So, Prince Hei thought, since he wants to reconcile with his mother, he must do what he likes, right?If he lost her child, he should pay her for it.

Rafael was the one who was compensated.

There are so many children without parents in the world, and the Black Prince can find one wherever he goes, but the Black Prince is more picky, he doesn’t want children born out of wedlock, non-noble ones, and unattractive ones, he still secretly hopes That child is inextricably related to the royal family, the Earl of March, or the Queen Mother... Anyway, there are more conditions than that.

The most amazing thing is that under such harsh conditions, those who work for the black prince can still find a baby candidate who satisfies the black prince, and there is more than one.

The black prince said that it is too cruel to let a mother lose her child by force.

Joan gave advice from a mother's point of view: "Why not choose an aristocratic family with a bad relationship between husband and wife? The kind where neither the husband nor the wife wants a child. They can't bring happiness to the child, so leave it to us." Come on."

This can be seen from Richard's childhood, when his father was not loved by his mother, and he was comparable to a little cabbage. Many nobles are really so perverted.Tiger poison does not eat the child is nothing to them.

In this way, Raphael was selected. He is the most...

At least according to the understanding of the people sent by the Black Prince, Raphael's parents didn't love the child.The relationship between this couple who was forced to marry is far from being described by the word "estrangement". It should be hatred. They even want to kill each other, but they cannot divorce because of the property problems of the two families.Later, she unexpectedly had a son, whom no one wanted to raise.Because the other half of the child's blood makes them really not like it.

It was also because of the accidental product of Richard that the Black Prince easily believed this statement, and without repeated investigations, he happily hugged Raphael to his mother, Isabella.

The Queen Mother who has no plans to raise another child: "..."

But this was the wish of his son, and Raphael's life experience was indeed pitiful, and he might be strangled to death if sent back. The queen mother nodded and agreed, and named Raphael on the spot.

Raphael has some blood ties to the [-]st Earl of March.The black prince thought that this kind of blood could make the Queen Mother love her house forever, but in fact, the Queen Mother was already tired of this lover because Earl March had to deal with her son.

The queen mother has done her best to raise Raphael, but she has no experience in raising children after all (when her two sons were young, her energy was spent on longing to be in love with her husband), and because Comparing the blood of Earl March... the result can be imagined.The most frightening thing is that the Queen Mother, who was very emotionally unstable in the early years, had no intention of hiding these things from Rafael. She told him bluntly, you are not my child, your parents don't want you anymore, and you are a child! Qiurong, gave you to my son, and my son gave you to me.

For a child who grew up under such circumstances, it is no wonder that Raphael's psychology is normal, not to mention that during those days, the queen mother was still blaming herself for the sudden abdication of the black prince, and the whole person was either in a trance, or cursing William II In the world, it had a great influence on Raphael.

This is the most wrong thing the Black Prince thinks he has ever done.

It was Raphael's father who sold his son for glory, not his mother. The relationship between the couple was indeed bad, but the only one who didn't want a child was the father, but the mother cherished her child very much.She has always wanted to meet Raphael, but was misunderstood by the black prince as greedy and wanted to use the blood relationship to do something.The black prince is really angry with this woman, since she has sold her child, can she stop trying to squeeze something out of her child like a vampire? !

Raphael also misunderstood the parents who abandoned him under the influence of the black prince, and once swore that even if the other party died, he would not see the other party.

Later, that poor woman really died of illness, and she was thinking about her only child until her death.When the whole story finally came to light, the grass on Raphael's mother's grave was nearly one meter high.

Raphael blamed the Black Prince for this, and the Black Prince blamed himself very much.

Later, it was Raphael who figured it out first. He can’t blame the Black Prince for this matter. His intentions are good. Everyone gets what they need. If you don’t love children, leave it to us.It's just that the Black Prince didn't expect that human nature can be so ugly.

These rumors have not been refuted all these years, and it is also because Raphael does not want to recognize his biological father at all.

Raphael's biological father was just like the black prince once misunderstood his biological mother. He was a despicable and disgusting guy who sold his son for glory, but tried to squeeze some oil from his grown-up son.

Rather than being the son of such a disgusting guy, Raphael would rather be a dishonorable illegitimate child.

Only a few people know about this matter, including Richard II, who doesn't know the whole story. He has always had a problem with the Queen Mother, especially the Queen Mother once connived at her lover to evade the Black Prince, which made him completely decide to put his own The queen mother treated her like a stranger.

Therefore, Richard II really thought that Raphael was the child of the queen mother and someone from the Mortimer family.

Raphael's black hair was standard for the first Earl of March.Not to mention that his brother insisted on giving Raphael the title of Earl of March later.Richard II took his inferences for granted.