Summer 1502, London, June 1502 Summary

Catalina arrives at Croydon Palace in the summer of 1502. She is not immediately summoned for an audience with the king and queen but is housed in rooms she declares "fit for a princess". She is anxiously awaiting instructions from her mother and sends immediately for Dr. de Puebla. He gives her a letter from her mother, inquires about her health, but finds only that she won't tell anyone of her news other than her mother. She waits until she is alone to read the letter. Catalina says that had her mother known how much her comfort was needed, she would have written more than the single page. The letter includes only instructions—that Catalina is to stay wherever she's told until she's certain there's not a baby, that she's to rest if she is pregnant and hope for...