By Karen Harper
A clean and fascinating old novel advised within the voice of Queen Elizabeth I's governess. Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a negative kingdom squire, fortunately secures an schooling and a spot for herself in a noble family. but if Thomas Cromwell, a henchman for King Henry VIII, brings her to the royal court docket as a secret agent, Kat enters right into a exciting new international of the Tudor monarchs. free of a lifetime of espionage by way of Cromwell's downfall, Kat ultimately befriends Anne Boleyn. As a death prefer to the doomed queen, Kat turns into governess and surrogate-mother to the younger Elizabeth Tudor. jointly they endure sour exile, assassination makes an attempt, and imprisonment, slightly escaping with their lives. yet they do, and while Elizabeth is topped, Kat maintains to serve her, faithfully guarding all of the queen's secrets and techniques (including Elizabeth's affair with the rushing Robert Dudley) . . . and eventually rising because the lifelong confidante and real mother-figure to Queen Elizabeth.
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It was a wonderful time to serve her, and I felt so excited that I could have flown. Granted, Their Majesties had arguments at times, some over his attentions to other ladies while Anne was six months gone with child. ” Though she dared not answer, I warrant his calling other queens her betters set her back, for Anne was on a crusade to outdo her predecessor. For a while after that she seemed to coddle the king. If she threw a tantrum, in light of her condition, the king forgave her. After all, soothsayers and astrologers alike had promised His Majesty the babe would be a boy.
If so, what else had he said of me? At that moment, I could have strangled Seymour—Cromwell too—with my bare hands, but here was my chance to escape all this, to find refuge and purpose at some rural place called Hatfield. I would be as happy to leave this court of scorpions and demons as I had been to enter it. HATFIELD HOUSE, HERTFORDSHIRE My heart ached for her the next two years. Not for the darling little Princess Elizabeth, but for her older half sister. Mary Tudor was given the dampest, smallest bedchamber in vast Hatfield—or Hunsdon or Eltham, when we moved off and on—and had but one servant, a doltish chambermaid.
She said, hardly keeping her voice down. I pulled away from Tom and sat up, tugging my bodice back in place. ” he countered. ” she hissed. My face flamed. As much as I was attracted to Tom, I could not let my passions rule me. ” “If you are, I warrant it is another man. Married to a sodomite, I am, now wouldn’t your father and the king, too, like to know that? ” Their voices were beginning to fade. At least they weren’t coming in here, where they could see us or force us to retreat farther into the maze.