Book I read in elementary about royalty and the diary of a princess

[L]

Basically what I remember is that its a book about this younger princess and her life in the castle. One day her dad throws up blood and passes out and they all think he's dead, but it turns out he isn't and that the reason he was throwing up blood was because he had drank a goblin filled with goat/lamb blood earlier that day. The scene happens over the course of a few pages, was meant to add character depth I guess but isn't really vital to the plot line. A very unusual yet vivid scene, and the book also had carriage rides but thats insignificant. I read it in 3rd/4th grade but I always remember that scene and I want to know what book its from

[Rebecca]

It might be from the Royal Diaries series that Scholastic published in the early 2000s. The titles are listed on the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roy...

Here's a link to one of them from Amazon, in case the style of the cover rings a bell: https://www.amazon.com/Royal-Diaries-...

[Ayshe]

https://www.goodreads.com/series/4953... - the goodreads series link for Rebecca's suggestion

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

What years were you in elementary school?

[Irene]

Hi, I’ve actually read almost all the Royal Diary books and I don’t think it’s any of them because they are highly realistic historical fiction and therefore wouldn’t include anything about a goblin - that sounds like a fantasy book.

I also don’t recall that scene at all and I’ve read basically all the European ones (which are more likely to be what you’re looking for considering that there is a castle and carriage).

Sorry that I couldn’t suggest another possible book, but I thought I’d help by saying that it just probably isn’t this series.

[Ayshe]

I thought by "goblin filled with goat/lamb blood" L means glass kind of thing - goblet, maybe?

[L]

yeah I meant a glass/cup, and it might be the Royal Diaries series but I'm not sure how to find which one considering the scene is insignificant to the plot, but I'll try to see if I could narrow down the search

[Ayshe]

Jahanara: Princess of Princesses by Kathryn Lasky?
Searching in the google book there's this: Thus, he pretended illness - and then - this is perhaps the most amazing part — on the morning that the envoys of the Rajput came, my father drank three entire goblets of goat's blood! It was goat's blood that he vomited, not his own.

[Irene]

Oh, totally didn’t realize it was a typo 😂
If it’s Jahanara, you might remember a scene where she feels ill and the doctor feels her stomach through a screen for modesty - does that sound familiar too? I remember that scene the most vividly because it was so unusual