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Updated: June 18, 2025
You will make her acquaintance . . . Let me see. To-day is Wednesday. We 'll call on her to-morrow." "On whom?" asked Anthony, looking blank. "Have we been talking of Queen Berengaria?" Adrian, with his nose in the air, enquired. "On whom? says you. We 'll call to-morrow afternoon." "Not I," said Anthony. "Not to-morrow?"
Having married Berengaria at Limasol, Richard set sail from Cyprus, on June 4th , with a fleet now described as consisting of thirteen large ships called busses, fifty galleys, and a hundred transports; and on the 10th he reached the camp of the crusaders assembled before the fortress of Acre, the siege of which had already occupied them not much less than two years, and had cost the lives, it is said of nearly two hundred thousand of the assailants.
It is not, however, certain that he kept his intended marriage with Berengaria an absolute secret from Philip. There would be no longer any special necessity for this after the treaty that had been made.
Then they turned, the two poor girls, and clasped each other tightly. "Oh, Lucille, my poor Lucille!" "Berengaria, Berengaria, how horribly it hurts!" Trix was at the station to meet them a greatly developed Trix, as became a young woman who not only provided for her own education but also that of her sister.
But ere she could detail her remonstrances, the curtain fell, and there was no division any longer betwixt the armed knight and the party of ladies. The warmth of an Eastern night occasioned the undress of Queen Berengaria and her household to be rather more simple and unstudied than their station, and the presence of a male spectator of rank, required.
George, I swear " "Swear not!" said the voice of one who now entered "Ho! my learned Hakim," said the king, "come, I hope, to tax our generosity." "I come to request instant speech with you instant." "Retire then, Berengaria," said the monarch. "Nay, renew not thy importunities nay, this I give to thee the execution shall not be till high noon. Edith, go if you are wise."
The Queen Berengaria loved her husband passionately, but she feared the loftiness and roughness of his character; and as she felt herself not to be his match in intellect, was not much pleased to see that he would often talk with Edith Plantagenet in preference to herself, simply because he found more amusement in her conversation, a more comprehensive understanding, and a more noble cast of thoughts and sentiments, than his beautiful consort exhibited.
Here he learned that three of his ships had been stranded on the rocky coasts of Cyprus, and that the ruler of the island, Isaac Comnenus, had permitted his people to pillage the unfortunate crews, and had refused shelter to his betrothed bride, the Princess Berengaria, and his sister, who, in one of the vessels, had been driven by stress of weather into the port of Limisso.
The arrival of Berengaria at Brindisi took place in the spring of the year, when the time was drawing nigh for the fleets and armaments to sail for the East. As yet, Philip knew nothing of Richard's plans in respect to this new marriage, but the time had now arrived when Richard perceived that they could no longer be concealed.
Lady Berengaria had several sisters; her eldest brother was master of the hounds, and her younger brothers were asserting their rights as cadets, and killing their father's pheasants. There was also a number of cousins, who were about the same age, and were always laughing, though it was never quite clear what it was about. An affectation of gaiety may be sometimes detected in youth.
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