Mary Su Stuart

To formally marry, the parties must be notified.However, the newcomer is still young, and the guardian does not need to report everything—anyway, this is the era when the orders of the parents (mainly the father) and the words of the matchmaker (the decision of the church) dominate.

Of course, the necessary respect still has to be there.So, the Queen of France came to talk to the Queen of Scots in person.

Start by complimenting her relatives first.

"In January, our Calais was finally fully recovered. God bless France!" Catherine rubbed the cross on her neck. "Thanks to the Duke of Guise. In the dark hour when the royal commander and the admiral were both captured, he earned honor for the kingdom, for the king, and for himself!"

This is really great news.Although the uncle's prestige is not his own, at least it can help his strength.Mary had heard this before, and now she smiled.

As for her "competitor", England is probably very depressed.Since 1548, that is to say, from now on, the British have finally completely lost their last piece of territory in continental Europe.Britain no longer has a bridgehead to interfere in mainland affairs, and has since become a complete island country. 【Note [-]】

"God bless France, this is the dawn of the end of the war."

Mary was careful not to use the word "victory."Because Mary probably knew that this time, the final result of the battle was that the French mainland was stable, but it lost the previous years of victories in Italy, which was far from being a "victory".

The words used by the future daughter-in-law touched Catherine slightly.However, although she wanted to ask Mary's opinion in detail, she didn't intend to get off the subject at this time.

"The duke's contribution to the kingdom is something to be proud of. The Guise family has always been highly valued by the king. When your mother married into Scotland, the previous king even added makeup to her. And you, dear Mary, inherited Scotland's Her Majesty, now, is about to be more closely connected with us."

The Queen's eyes contained anticipation, real anticipation. "His Majesty King Henry believes that the time is now ripe. We will soon become a real family."

Mary blinked.It's finally a showdown... But, she still feels that this age is too good!

After all, Francois is just about to turn 14.

My own body is only a little more than a year older than his.

This is clearly torturing minors!

Mary tried her best to stabilize her facial muscles that were about to twitch, lowered her head, and said in a slightly "shy" voice: "I am very happy about this, very honored."

Then she raised her head and said with the queen's reserve and pride: "However, Your Majesty, it is a pity that my mother is not here. Therefore, regarding the many details of the marriage contract, I think I will have a lot to ask you."

Catherine nodded in relief. "It's your duty, my child."

Having said that, however, it was her other elder, the Cardinal of Lorraine, the Duke of Guise, who really acted as Mary's "marriage counselor", and as a younger brother, he was working hard in the rear.

Her half-brother, James, also gave a lot of advice.

Faced with such a major event, the four Marys were full of joy, eager to advise the queen.

As a time-traveling woman gradually adapting to the "old times", Mary listened carefully to all their suggestions and finally decided to make up her own mind.

However, this marriage contract that she made when she was less than six years old, the part she can control is very limited.

Known as a noble queen, the land she owns is covered with war and barrenness; at the same time, she is a child bride-in-law who depends on others... Mary looks through various documents while introspecting herself-of course there is no need for inferiority, and conceit should be avoided as much as possible.

According to the previous agreement, the young Queen of Scots and her husband will always maintain the laws, independence and freedom of Scotland-yes, Scotland is still the private property of the female monarch, and the French system cannot be imposed on it.

However, it is clearly pointed out here that after the Queen of Scots gets married, her husband will become the "king side by side" and have the power to rule Scotland together.

After fighting, Mary finally added additional clauses to the "ruling power": the queen is still the only supreme decision-maker in terms of the most important personnel appointment and removal rights and financial power.

This was modeled after Queen Isabella I of Castile of Spain when she married Ferdinand II of Aragon.

But there was another stipulation about the "king side by side" that Mary could do nothing-the past agreement stated that once she was childless and died before her husband, François would be the king of Scotland alone; and he could remarry, Children born of remarriage can still inherit the Scottish throne.

That is to say, François de Valois, from their formal union, will be established as Mary Stuart's first legal heir and share almost all of her royal power.If she dies childless, all her inheritance rights to the throne of Scotland, and even England, will be handed over to the French royal family.

Yes, Mary, as the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister, theoretically also has the opportunity to win the crown of England.This is the origin of her "delusion" of controlling Britain-it does not necessarily require military conquest.

Although Henry VIII determined the position of his own children (he was reconciled by the sixth queen and gave two "illegitimate daughters" the right to inherit) and his sister's descendants when he established the order of succession for the last time, he deliberately excluded the sister's bloodline .But after that, two monarchs, Edward VI and Mary Tudor, passed, and his legacy was not valued very much.

Since Stuart's claim to the throne of England was sufficient in the name of blood, Henry II naturally demanded that they also be included in the clauses.

In view of the fact that the King of France may have various plans behind him, Uncle Guise reminded his niece to accept the urging and sign the promise.

Of course, Mary noticed that in the agreement, the one-way right of inheritance entrusted by the wife to the husband is not unlimited and unalterable.If the queen dies first in the future, if the Scottish nobles can pay France a fee as compensation for the money and food spent by France in protecting the highlands over the years, they can still regain their royal power.

Actually, it's not too much.More than ten years ago, Henry VIII of England also made the same request, and it seems that his heart is even darker.In Mary's view, at least, the French royal family in front of her had really helped Scotland and was advocating chivalry, so she didn't look like she would do anything immoral.

Otherwise, how could she live in peace and comfort until now.

It's just that this "ransom" is too high-a full 500 million livres.Hehe, there is no inflation in this era, and the fiscal revenue of the French court over the years is only a little over 1000 million...

Henry II's abacus is really good!

However, as a time-traveling woman with a weak sense of belonging, so far, Mary has not cared about the ownership of her "after death" royal power, and has no deep national or regional obsessions.She signed it, and she signed it quite happily.

On April 1558, 4, the wedding of French Crown Prince François de Valois and Crown Princess Mary Stuart was held in Notre Dame de Paris.

In this name, the French court borrowed 300 million livres.Enthused by the fall of Calais, despite the stalemate in the war with Spain, the Paris High Court also approved this new "for the country" debt.

As a result, this wedding that connected Scotland and France became the most luxurious and successful wedding in the Kingdom over the years, and it was deeply engraved in the hearts of everyone present.

Ladies are graceful and luxurious, with fragrant clothes and temples; gentlemen are noble and elegant, with personable demeanor; priests are solemn and sacred, pious and solemn...

The grand wedding scene and the extravagant and extravagant celebration process seemed like a long dream to the time-traveling girl Mary.Occasionally, during the tense intervals, she would be distracted, and her thoughts would often drift to the exterior and interior of this famous cathedral—it is indeed a glorious representative of Gothic architecture!

The sun climbed to the sky, and then slowly set.Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to the procedure.

On the surface, Mary was very honest, being manipulated by the master of ceremonies like a puppet.In her heart, half of her was a little excited, and half of her was a little complaining: the wedding is really hard work!

Glancing to the side, François's rosy, innocent face; Marie is in conflict again—is she really going to marry him?

This young boy has become her "life partner"?

But through the road of "power" and "ideal" that the female general will walk... Can she expect too much from him?

Well, assuming that people can develop and transform... However, they are not siblings, not friends, they are going to be "husband and wife".

Mary forced herself to get rid of the "ashamedness" of being an old cow gnawing tender grass deep in her soul—no, she still felt that it was too shameless to start with such a "brother".

Love the minors, love the flowers of the motherland!

Francois is only 14 years old.

Don't forget, even her body is only 15 years old.

So what kind of behavior... at least after the age of 16... it's fine...

No, no, out of health and hygiene considerations, you have to be safe no matter what.

You know, in this day and age, there are no effective means of contraception!

Alas, leaving aside political issues and emotional entanglements, this biological need seems to be equally bad.

Although the Crown Princess has fought numerous battles between heaven and man before, she repeatedly paralyzed herself with "people are like this in this age", "stretching one's head and retracting one's head is one knife", "what does it matter if a real warrior bleeds"; Mary, who entered the "bridal chamber", looked at the super-large and super-gorgeous four-poster bed with pure white irises tattooed on the bed curtain, and still felt that one was as big as the other.

However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who was sitting on the head of the bed in pajamas and listening to the archbishop's "sermon" with her, looked at her as if he was as hungry as a wolf or a tiger.

Mary rubbed her eyes.He under the candlelight... Maybe she made a mistake?He seems to have returned to the innocent, innocent, good student who is thirsty for knowledge.

Mary moved a little closer to him.

Now, Francois in her vision suddenly became shy and cramped...

Interesting.

The bride looked closely, and the groom's cheeks flushed.Mary was finally convinced that her ostensible husband was actually more worried about what was about to happen than she was.

Thankfully, she didn't drink any alcohol, so she wouldn't be dizzy at this time.The confidence of being an older sister welled up in Mary's chest again, and she stopped paying attention to Francois for the time being, and first frankly "accepted" the blessing bestowed on the newlyweds by the bishop.

What, according to this sincere "unmarriageist", after the congratulatory speech, they are going to... do that kind of thing in full view?

Mary thought she must have turned blue.It was true that she had heard some teachings before... In fact, in the Louvre, the Queen often "changed clothes" while socializing with the ladies.However, there is no need to share the room, show it to so many people to see and listen to it!

There are quite a few men among them!

She had never heard that mentioned before!

Fortunately, what happened next proved that Mary was a little too cranky.

At least, tonight.

Just after the couple received the official blessing, the archbishop showed joy.Then, he led a large number of dignitaries to file out.

Although the Datong room (the inner bedroom of the wedding room still has no door!) is on the outside, and the attendants are still busy, but anyway, the population density inside the new house is much lower.

Mary secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and began to carefully look at her husband in the warm yellow light.

——He is quite handsome.

——The expression is also very lively.

But she is really difficult to start with.

Similarly, François stared at his wife intently.

——When you purse your lips and say nothing, you are beautiful and beautiful.

——But when he smiled, he looked bright and moving again.

The French Crown Prince's palms were a little sweaty.He only learned some knowledge slightly, but for various reasons, he never practiced it.Therefore, in his heart, he was in a panic.

Looking forward, and a little nervous.

After all, it was his childhood sweetheart and the object of his respect and admiration for many years.

He was worried about "blasphemy" and he was afraid of disappointing his "sister".

Therefore, even though the others were quite far away from the bed, Francois still dared not "do it".

However, the young man's desire to conquer and the idea of ​​challenging frequently linger in his mind.He only felt that somewhere in his body was impulsive and clamoring.

The boys and girls just stared at each other, despite their body temperature rising, the atmosphere was awkward...

In the end, it was François who mustered up the courage first, pulled the curtain of the bed, and then pulled up the quilt to cover them both.

He seemed to tremble. "let us start."