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Updated: June 10, 2025
She had hardly any clothes, and was not at all pretty. The children were rather bored by her, but everyone else was delighted, including the King. 'By the beard of Nimrod! he cried, 'ask what you like girl, and you shall have it! 'I want nothing, said the dancer; 'the honour of having pleased the King may-he-live-for-ever is reward enough for me.
'But oh, my dears, the Queen went on, 'such a to-do as there's been about this last wife! You never did! It really was TOO funny. We wanted an Egyptian princess. The King may-he-live-for-ever has got a wife from most of the important nations, and he had set his heart on an Egyptian one to complete his collection. Well, of course, to begin with, we sent a handsome present of gold.
Now tell me but no, I am quite tired out with your being so clever. Besides, I'm sure you'd like ME to tell YOU something, wouldn't you? 'Yes, said Anthea. 'I want to know how it is that the King has gone 'Excuse me, but you should say "the King may-he-live-for-ever", said the Queen gently.
So then we said his sister would do, and then there were more gifts and more journeys; and now at last the tiresome, black-haired thing is coming, and the King may-he-live-for-ever has gone seven days' journey to meet her at Carchemish.
'I beg your pardon, Anthea hastened to say 'the King may-he-live-for-ever has gone to fetch home his fourteenth wife? I don't think even Bluebeard had as many as that. And, besides, he hasn't killed YOU at any rate. The Queen looked bewildered. 'She means, explained Robert, 'that English kings only have one wife at least, Henry the Eighth had seven or eight, but not all at once.
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