While Duchess Mary Fitzroy was basking in her passionate time with her husband, the Duke of Richmond, Isabel saw several early retainers leading into the drawing room, led by the valet in the drawing-room. The valet had just arrived outside the conference area when he saw Isabel waving at him.

"Gentlemen, please wait outside the door." The manservant immediately turned around and replied respectfully to several retainers behind him.

At the same time, several retainers quietly left the meeting room after seeing Isabel's gesture one after another. Isabel Walton glanced at the Duchess with a faint smile on her face, "Mary, the retainers have arrived, do you want to preside over today's meeting?" ”

When Mary heard her words, she raised her head and looked sideways at her, blinked a few times and quickly chuckled softly, "I'm sorry, Isabel, you are here to preside over the meeting today, I am just listening." ”

"Well, if you have a different opinion, just say it."

"Okay, no problem."

Soon, the retainers who had come to the meeting entered the meeting room one after another. With her hands behind her back, Isabel glanced at the crowd and announced aloud: "Ladies and gentlemen, I will still preside over today's meeting, and the Duchess will observe and reserve her personal opinion. ”

At the end of the nearly hour-long meeting, Isabel made a public announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Duchess's opinion has been agreed by His Highness, and with immediate effect, Nottingham Castle will be renamed Richmond Castle." Guys, do you remember? ”

After all the retainers agreed, she went on to say: "Your Highness has appointed me as the inspector of the new estate, and I will go to Sussex to-morrow to inspect His Highness's new estate." During my absence from the county, the Duchess will exercise control over all matters within the realm. ”

After speaking, Isabel looked at Mary, who was sitting in the seat of the lord's wife, and nodded slightly, "Madam, do you have anything else to say?" ”

Mary nodded to her and looked at the retainers in front of her, "Gentlemen, Yoman, I thank you for the good performance of your duties during your service to Your Highness. As the Privy Counsellors go to the South, I still hope that you will work with all your heart. ”

"Of course, I, as the lord's wife, will be as generous and merciful to you as Your Highness. In the run-up to Pentecost and March 1st Sunday, I would like to ask Your Highness to hold a large banquet and ball in the castle to recognize your efforts. In addition, His Highness and I will invite the nobles, knights, and squires of the neighboring counties to the ball. ”

Mary's words were warmly welcomed by all the retainers present. You must know that the significance of banquets and balls held in the Duke's Palace is different from the banquets and balls held in ordinary aristocratic families, which means that it will be very grand and will attract countless famous nobles and wealthy people to participate in important social events. Therefore, it would be a great honour to be invited by the Duke and Duchess of Richmond.

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After the meeting of the retainers, the Duchess, who was followed by two valet maids, led Isabel to her room, where she intended to show her work of needlework and embroidery. In fact, Isabel did prefer the aesthetic style of flower embroidery and three-dimensional embroidery of medieval England. It's just that she seems to have never done such a thing as threading a needle and thread on a velvet fabric with gold and silver threads.

When Mary picked up a cloak that was being embroidered for the Duke of Richmond, she stared triumphantly, "Isabel, you know what?" In the traditional embroidery products, needle embroidery is the best and relatively easy to master embroidery method. ”

Isabel, who looked a little dazed, just admired the half-embroidered duke's coat of arms on her cloak and admired, "Yes, ma'am. So, this cloak of His Royal Highness is also embroidered with this embroidery method? ”

"yes, now I'm thinking about whether to add three-dimensional embroidery as well."

"Three-dimensional embroidery? Madame, can you explain? ”

Now, Mary has finally regained some of her self-confidence in front of Isabel. Looking at her with a smile, he turned his face to the two maids who were sitting under the window and were embroidering different items, and said, "Amy, you come and tell my good friend Miss Isabel what three-dimensional embroidery is." ”

"Yes, ma'am." Amy put down the embroidery in her hand and looked at all the embroidery items in the room. Soon, he picked up a cushion embroidered with the upper body of the Virgin Mary and came to Isabel, and after saluting, he explained to the other party with a smile: "Miss, in fact, three-dimensional embroidery is to stuff some parchment or small pieces of paper into the nose of the figure to achieve the effect of a statue. Do you see that this embroidery of the Virgin looks very much like a real person? ”

Isabel nodded, reached out and touched the nose of the Virgin, smiled and looked at Amy again, "Well, this statue of the Virgin feels like a real person." ”

"Miss, if you like, I can embroider a three-dimensional embroidery for you."

"Oh, thank you so much, Amy."

The Duchess glanced at the two of them, and deliberately straightened her delicate countenance, "Amy, I'm sure Miss Isabel will soon learn to embroider." ”

"Yes, ma'am." Amy didn't dare to refute Mary's words after hearing them.

"It's okay, thank you again." Isabel smiled at Amy and nodded, then came to Mary's side and stared at the other party's bare neck and whispered, "Mary, you want me to learn embroidery, that's fine." However, I will give you all the supervision of the affairs in Your Highness's domain. ”

"Stop, do you know how tired I am after attending this meeting of retainers today?" Mary squinted at her.

"Are you tired? Mary, you didn't speak during the meeting. ”

"At first I could still hear the things of my retainers, but at last I thought my head was as groggy as the plague. No, well, I think I heard the Lord calling me and was ready to take me to the Lord's paradise. ”

Isabel knew what she was trying to say, presumably to say that she was dizzy, her brain was swollen, and her ears were filled with heavy metal rock music. When she heard the words of the Duchess, who was the lady of the lord, she could only shake her head helplessly, "Mary, you are the Duchess, don't you want you and His Royal Highness the Duke of Richmond's family to become richer, more powerful and majestic?" ”

Mary sat at the table and continued to embroider her husband's cloak, looking up at her, "Isabel, I also hope that my highness and I can continue on the land of the kingdom. However, I couldn't enjoy things related to economics and land. ”