A year after Elizabeth had her son, she gave birth to a daughter. They named her Margaret. There was not as much celebration in the street for Margaret as she was a girl, but to Elizabeth, she was the most precious thing. She was a sweet little baby with bright blue eyes. Her older brother Peter doted on her. He went wherever she went.
Elizabeth wrote to her mother when she knew she was pregnant, but her mother was not able to get to London in time for the birth. Elizabeth and Pedro had left Spain after they were married to get away from Pedro’s family. Matthew had come with them to protect the young couple and get them safely to London. Things had been hard for her parents after they left. Pedro’s family suspected they had run away, and her parents had been shunned. Pedro had been engag
