Chapter 3
BUT JOHANNA couldn’t ask anyone how to get Roald to do his kingly duties. None of the people who had prepared him back when he gave a speech at the ball were still alive. She shuddered to think how much work that would have taken, and threats, and how petrified he would have been.
She realised that if she had wanted Roald to be obedient, she should have treated him as one treated a naughty child from the moment they got married. Some of the nobles made whispers in that general direction, that she should be “firm with him”, and give him no option but to cooperate. But Roald was not a child, and she didn’t like the idea of treating him like one.
She paid the price for that way of thinking now.
After breakfast the next morning, she went into the garden with him to try and talk t
