"Along with her, her children, Elveryn and Augustus, are to lose their titles and be banished from their palaces. And Diane's courtyard is to have no servants and no money will be accorded to them!"
Kind Edmund's shook sending the brush and ink rolling down to the floor. He'd never expected the Queen to hit the nail so hard in his heart that his feelings would go numb.
She talked about reducing his children and Mistress to a status no less than a servant in the palace with no royal luxuries. Knowing Diane and his pampered children, they wouldn't survive a month under such harsh conditions.
"You remember, right?" Queen Rosalyn snaked her hand around King Edmund's neck.
King Edmund felt her touch and it was cold as death.