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Authors: Elizabeth Fremantle
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H | Duke of Suffolk; husband of Frances Grey; father of Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey. He was executed for treason on the command of Queen Mary for his part in the Wyatt uprising of 1554. (1517–1554) |
H | Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford; son of the Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, and Anne Stanhope. He secretly married Katherine Grey, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London, fathering two sons with her there: Edward, Lord Beauchamp, and Thomas Seymour. He remarried more than fourteen years after Katherine’s death, in 1582, in secret again, to a Frances Howard and was arrested once more. After Frances’s death in 1598 he married in secret yet again, by a remarkable coincidence to another woman named Frances Howard. (1539–1621) |
J | Countess of Feria, later Duchess, wife of Gómez Suárez de Figueroa y Córdoba, Count of Feria. She was a confirmed Catholic and close companion of Mary I. (1538–1612) |
J | Lady Jane Grey; Queen Jane, 6–19 July 1553; eldest daughter of Frances and Henry Grey, Duke and Duchess of Suffolk; wife of Guildford Dudley; older sister of Katherine and Mary Grey. Jane had been thought of as a possible bride for her cousin Edward VI, but when it became apparent he was dying she was matched with Northumberland’s son as part of his scheme to gain power, as Jane had been named as heir to the throne by the young king. She was crowned but deposed only days later by her cousin Mary Tudor and executed on 12 February 1554 following Wyatt’s rebellion. Though it was thirteen days from the death of Edward VI to the deposition of Jane she is remembered as the Nine Day Queen. (1536/7–1554) |
J | Lady Jane Seymour. Named Juno for the purposes of this novel only, to avoid confusion with Jane Grey and Jane Dormer. She was the sister of the Earl of Hertford and daughter of the Duke of Somerset and Anne Stanhope. Lady Jane was Katherine Grey’s closest companion and witness at her wedding, though tragically died and was unable to testify to the match. Jane was an author; her best-known work was |
K | Katherine Astley or Ashley (née Champernowne) was governess and mother figure of Elizabeth I, nearly losing her life in 1549 for attempting to broker a marriage between her young charge and Thomas Seymour. (c.1502–1565) |
K | Lady Katherine Grey; second daughter of Frances and Henry Grey, Duke and Duchess of Suffolk; wife of (1) Lord Henry Herbert—annulled, (2) Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford; sister of Jane and Mary Grey; mother of Edward, Lord Beauchamp, and Thomas Seymour. Katherine was not yet thirteen when she was first married (at the same ceremony as her sister Jane), and though she lived with her new husband’s family the marriage was not consummated, making it easy for her father-in-law, the Earl of Pembroke, to gain an annulment when he changed allegiance. Aged twenty, she was imprisoned in the Tower of London on the order of Elizabeth I, having secretly married Hertford, and gave birth to her two sons there. Katherine was devoted to her numerous animals—it is documented that her dogs, monkeys, and birds destroyed the furniture she had used while in the Tower. Later, under house arrest, Katherine refused food and fell ill, dying after almost eight years in captivity. There is the suggestion that Katherine starved herself to death, which is the approach I take in the novel, and it is clear from accounts of her final hours that she had entirely given up the will to live. (1540–1568) |
K | Thomas Keyes, Sergeant Porter to Elizabeth I; Captain of Sandgate Castle. He married Mary Grey without royal permission and was sent into solitary confinement at the Fleet Prison as a result, which destroyed his health. He was known as being the largest man at court, with accounts stating his height as anything between 6' and 6'8". Cecil said of the clandestine marriage: “The Sergeant Porter, being the biggest gentleman of this court, has married secretly the Lady Mary Grey; the least of all the court.” (c.1524–1571) |
L | Wife of Sir Francis Knollys (née Catherine Carey); officially daughter of Mary Boleyn and William Carey but was rumored to be the daughter of Henry VIII, as Mary Boleyn had been his mistress around the time she was conceived. If true, this would have made her Elizabeth I’s half sister. Mother to fourteen children, including Lettice Knollys, Lady Knollys served as a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth and was one of her most loyal and close companions. (c.1524–1569) |
L | Hugh Latimer, Chaplain to Edward VI. After 1550 he served as chaplain to Katherine Brandon, the Grey sisters’ step-grandmother. Latimer was burned at the stake for heresy during Mary I’s reign. He said at his execution, “We shall light a candle which, by God’s grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.” (c.1487–1555) |
