A Special Date

The childhood of Mary Queen of Scots

Mary spent most of her childhood in France, while Scotland was ruled by the Regency.

She loved to wake up early in the morning and stay in bed to enjoy the romance of the sun shining through the window into her bedroom, opening her eyes as it woke her sleeping world along with the chirping of birds, looking at the printed curtains in her fine bedroom, tethered with thick nylon cords for an air of elegance, the classical style of the carved bedroom roof and the furniture in her bedroom in the same style. One of her favourite pets was a lovely white-haired rooster that would creep into her bedroom in the morning to tell her, Queen Mary, wake up! I'm hungry and I wish to join you for breakfast.

Mary, with sleepy eyes, reluctantly tried to get out of bed, but lay down again, and the rooster simply jumped into bed and paced around her bed like a gentleman pondering how he could get her out of bed and into the living room for breakfast.

"I know you're hungry, but I don't want to get up yet." Mary took the cockerel in her arms and ran her hands over its smooth, beautiful white feathers.

"I'll take you out for breakfast today, we can have a traditional French breakfast on the streets of France, but we'll have to sneak out quietly to do it, no one from the royal family will know. We'll leave as soon as I've washed up." Queen Mary took the plainest princess dress out of her wardrobe and put it on, and made a hole somewhere in it to make it look deliberately torn. She put on a pair of ballet flats that were easy to walk in, and instead of deliberately polishing her shoes, she made them look extra dirty with stains on them. And so began her favourite game of hiding her identity. She looks in the mirror and smiles, "Dear cockerel, let me give you a name! Your name is Mischa! Today I will take you out to find a mate. I won't be Queen Mary, I'll be Elena, so if I meet someone new on the road today, I'll say my name is Elena, and you won't be able to tell me that I'm Queen Mary!"

The rooster said in telepathic form, "Yes, Queen Mary, my master, from today onwards, whenever you take me out to play hide the identity game, I will be called Mischa and you will be called Elena, I believe today we will meet a man called Mischa and another man called Leonardo and they will have a lovely white haired hen called Elena and they will also have have have two dogs, one called Leonardo and one called Mischa.Do you want to change the name you hide your identity under or you will be followed by these two men for life afterwards because they both like to call their pets Elena and you will be the pet star of their hearts!"

"You mean I'm going to have a love affair today? Their names are Mischa and Leonardo, and their pets are called Elena, Mischa and Leonardo?" said Queen Mary.

"Yes, Queen Mary, you know better yourself than I do, that's what you just imagined, I learned this information while pacing around your bed, you wanted to sneak me out to breakfast today because you wanted to meet them, right? I also know that you've put your favourite chocolate in your bag: Mon Chéri . Today you will go to the most famous place on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, choose a restaurant with a romantic name related to love, have breakfast there and meet these two men who will follow you for the rest of your life! You'll give them chocolates and they'll fall in love with you at the same time! You will spend your life struggling with whether you love Mischa more or Leonardo more?Princess Mary, why don't we not go out because I don't want you to give them your love and struggle with who you really love at the same time? I'm your pet, I'll be there for you when you're lonely and isolated, give me your love and attention and we'll live happily ever after together!"

"Haha, you're a cute rooster. You're fine as my pet, but I'd have to meet my true love too, and my true love partner would have to be a man who would drink coffee and have candlelit dinners with me every day, talk about life with me every day, walk on the beach in the sun, and of course I'd want him to have the ability to govern a country! These two men have followed me for life and I am hiding my identity today, I want to see if they can find me and win my true love! Which of them do you think will eventually become my husband?" Queen Mary said with a smile.

"I don't know, I don't have the ability to see the future yet! I am only a rooster and I wish to read your mind to see the answer, but you hide the future message and perhaps you have not made the final decision either!" The white rooster tried in vain to decipher Queen Mary's thoughts and eventually had to give up.

"You're a clever cock, let's go! Get that white hen called Elena back to make a companion for your clever white rooster called Mischa!" Queen Mary squeezed her eyes mischievously at the white cockerel.

"I hope that hen isn't too smart or too dumb, and I want her to listen to me, not me to listen to her!" The white rooster said with anticipation.

"Nature will know when the time comes, let's get going!" Mary put on her carry-on package and set off with the rooster in her arms. She hesitated, wondering if she should have the royal driving entourage follow her? But in the end she decided to slip out of the French palace on foot. She hired an ordinary carriage in the street and eventually stopped at a charming café on the Champs-Elysees on the French avenue. The name of the café was romantic and had something to do with love. Mary sat down happily and ordered a cup of her favourite French fancy coffee. The thin, tall coffee cup had the rich flavour of fancy cream on top, and Mary sipped her fancy coffee and ate her croissant. Not long after, two boys did arrive, each with a dog, and one of them holding a bag of hens.

"The man you want to see has arrived, Queen Mary!" The white rooster said.

"From now on, don't call me Queen Mary in front of them, call me Elena." said Queen Mary, lowering her voice to her pet white cockerel.

The two boys came in, their eyes lighting up when they saw Mary but making a show of wandering around the restaurant before finally taking a seat at a corner of the restaurant near the table where Mary was.

"Hello, little beauty, may we sit next to you?" Leonardo said as he looked at Mary.

Marie replied, "Make yourself at home!" She picked up her coffee and took a sip, trying to hide the panic she felt inside.

Both Mischa and Leonardo could see her nervousness and panic and they looked at each other and smiled as they had been thumping inside for a long time at this moment.

Mischa and Leonardo sat down, looked at the breakfast list and ordered the same food as Mary and sat down to enjoy their breakfast while talking to Mary. "What's your pet rooster's name?"

"His name is Mischa! And your hen?" Mary said.

"Her name is Elena, do you like the name of my pet hen?" The man asked.

"I like the name of your pet hen because my name is also Elena.What about you, what is your name?" Mary said the name she had given herself in advance to hide her identity.

"My name is Mischa, and my dog's name is Mischa," he said, sheepishly glancing at Elena. Afterwards, he ate his breakfast in silence.

"And you?" Elena asked, looking at the other man.

"My name is Leonardo and my pet dog is also called Leonardo!" the man said with a smile.

"Is that a coincidence? Or is it something else?" Elena laughed merrily.

"It's coincidence, or maybe it's fate!" The white cockerel said.

"Your rooster can actually talk?" Mischa and Leonardo said in unison.

"It only speaks telepathically." Elena stroked his rooster and then looked at Mischa's hen and she couldn't help saying, "Mischa, can I hold your hen for a while? Perhaps your pet hen and my pet rooster could make a pair?"

Mischa instructed the hen, "Behave yourself!" He then carefully handed the hen to Elena.

Elena took the hen and gently stroked it with her hand. Afterwards, she smiled and said, "Perhaps your hen has telepathic powers too!"

"Yes, thank you, Princess Elena." The hen said.

Mischa asked curiously, "Why do you call her Princess?"

Mischa, I used to be Princess Elena's pet, can I go home with her? I know she has a beautiful home!"

"What? You're my pet and you're going home with her?" Mischa was a little upset.

"Your hen has no mate, and it just so happens that my rooster is lonely, so how about you give your hen to my rooster as a mate? If you want, I'll pay for breakfast today!" Elena said.

Leonardo looked at Mischa's indecision and said, "Mischa, just say yes! I already knew you wanted to find a suitable match for your hens and give them away anyway! It would be better to give your pet hen to someone else than to this young, princess-like looking beauty!"

"All right then! You'll have to take good care of my hen! Can I see it again sometime?" Mischa asked.

"Yes, we can have a date here for the meeting of the hens and roosters! I can use the opportunity to sneak out every Sunday to go to church!" Elena said.

"We'll come too!" The two pet dogs had a sudden telepathy too.

"Yes! We won't see each other! From now on this is the place where our friendship will be witnessed for a long time, so for our friendship, I'll buy you champagne!" Elena ordered a bottle of champagne and an exquisite meal to share with Mischa and Leonardo, the waiter brought the champagne covered with a white cloth in an ice bucket and the three of them raised a glass to celebrate the pure friendship and the special treat of the telepathy of their pets!