In the middle of the night on April 29, 1050, when the bells rang in Windsor Castle, Hubert's wife, the Duchess of Anjou, rushed into the queen's chambers first, followed by the other ladies with excited looks, and the prenatal pains of Queen Urraca began.

When William heard the castle bell ringing, he immediately hurried to the queen's room in the upper part of Windsor Castle, and his steps were very flustered.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Queen is about to give birth!" Susan, the Queen's personal maid, walked quickly to William and said anxiously.

"Take me there."

The date of his wife's delivery was nearly half a month earlier than the expected date of delivery, and William was worried that Uraka was in danger of premature birth, so he was very anxious at this time, and he wanted to put on his wings and fly to Uraka's side.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Susan bowed to William.

After a while, William and Susan entered Queen Uraka's room, only to see Queen Urakar sweating profusely and screaming, much to William's heart.

"Dr. Mirren, how is the Queen?" William met the busy Dr. Mirren and asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, the queen is in danger of premature birth because of her early delivery." The imperial physician of the court, Mirren, touched the sweat on his forehead, looked worried, and said.

"Doctor Mirren, you have to do everything in your power to heal the queen, and if the queen has any chance, you will have no place to stay." William pressed his hands on Mirren's shoulders and stared at the other party, and said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured, we will do our best." Dr. Mirren seemed to have made up his mind, and returned to the Tao with determination.

After a while, the royal physician came out of the queen's chamber and announced loudly that the queen was about to give birth.

A few minutes later, a large group of Norman nobles entered the queen's maternity room and sat down in the armchairs around the queen's maternity bed, according to their respective noble ranks. The nobles who had not been seated in the front row stood on the stools in the back row, because they did not want to miss the queen's every move.

William was reluctant but did not stop them, for according to the ancient custom of the Kingdom of France, the birth of a queen was not a private matter, but on the contrary, since time immemorial, the painful process of childbirth had to be carried out under the watchful eye of the noble ministers and ladies, and under the supervision of the nobles of the court.

At that time, all members of the royal family and noble ministers have the right to come to the delivery room to watch the whole process of the queen's delivery. Needless to say, this privilege is barbaric and unhygienic, but no one will give it up.

The windows were closed, and the air in the room was unusually muddy from the hot breath exhaled by fifty or so people, and the smell of rice vinegar and kerosene, but no one stood up and went to open a window, and they always focused on the queen who was giving birth, lest they miss any of the scenes.

William noticed that the number of nobles gathered in the maternity room was too large, which would put more mental pressure on the queen and not allow her to give birth.

So he instructed Susan, Osborne's butler and the queen's personal attendant, "Osborne steward, you go and drive out the room from the room to the unrelated people and the nobles below the earl, and Susan go and open the window of the delivery room and ventilate the place." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Steward Osborne and Susan bowed.

Subsequently, according to William's instructions, Osborne's butler drove more than 20 low-ranking nobles out of the delivery room, and Susan also opened the windows of the delivery room for ventilation, and the unpleasant smell in the delivery room dissipated a lot.

"Uraka, my queen, for the sake of our children, you have to persevere!" William sat on the delivery bed, holding Uraka's hand in both hands and encouraging.

"Your Majesty......" Urakar replied with a turnaround, followed by a scream that made William really anxious.

The experienced midwives around Queen Uraqa said words of encouragement to make the birth as easy as possible, and in order to relieve the pain during childbirth, the midwives placed a warm cloth on the queen's abdomen.

In fact, in addition to these, drugs such as alcohol and opium can also relieve pain in medicine, but midwives do not use them.

At that time, labor pains during childbirth were considered inevitable in childbirth, a punishment that God had given to all women since Eve's time. At that time, any relief of pain was considered an opposition to God, especially the use of medicine was not acceptable to all, because God wanted to hear the penitent cry of a woman in childbirth to get the satisfaction of punishment.

William, of course, knew the tradition that the midwives could not use any medicine to ease the queen's pain during childbirth, but the screams of the ulaka made him decide to break this rule, and he ordered the midwives to use alcohol to relieve the pain of the ulaka, and opium was far away in India, and he did not have it at all.

Queen Urraka endured unspeakable pain for seven hours in full view of everyone, but thanks to William's support, she was able to endure the excruciating pain.

At half past ten o'clock in the morning, Queen Ulaka finally gave birth to a child.

"It's a boy!" The midwives let out a cry of excitement, which immediately attracted everyone's attention, it was a boy.

"My son!" William stood up and looked at the baby in the midwife's hand, the baby's wrinkled appearance was a little ugly, but William smiled heartily.

Before William could rejoice, the screams of the palace physician Mirren suddenly came from the delivery room: "Open the window, get some hot water, I want to bleed the queen!" ”

Queen Uraka had just passed out, and the royal physicians and midwives were scrambling to save the queen's life.

William was extremely anxious as he watched this scene, he wanted to do something but could not do anything, and could only pray that the queen would get through it.

The queen was saved, the queen opened her eyes, and she was saved.

This is the first child of Queen Uraka, although there is no danger, the mother and child are safe, but the first mother of Uraka. Jimena still feels the fragility of life very intuitively.

If the court doctor had not rescued him in time, or if something had gone wrong because of the panic of the crowd, it was likely that the queen would have left William.

William was terrified, knowing that the ridiculous paternity tradition from the Frankish royal family, which the Normans from France had inherited and nearly killed Urraca, might not have survived if she hadn't been physically strong.

"I'm going to abolish the paternity system that almost killed both mother and son." William made up his mind.

"Our child, Richard!" William carefully picked up his child and said softly to Queen Uraka.

The nobles of the Kingdom of England and the Norman Kingdom finally welcomed their long-awaited prince, Richard. Morality. Normandy, a true heir.