By Anne O'Brien
An blameless pawn
A state and not using a king
A new dynasty will reign…
1415. The jewel within the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is ready lower than lock and key for King Henry V. whereas he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save lots of her from her distress. however the brutal king wishes her crown, no longer her blameless love.
For Katherine, England is a lion's den of greed, avarice and distrust. And while she is widowed at twenty-one, she turns into a prize ripe for the taking—her younger son the longer term monarch, her hand in marriage worthy a nation.
This is a dangerous political online game, one the dowager queen needs to study speedy. The players—the Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudor—are circling. Who can have her? Who will break her? this can be the tale of Katherine de Valois.
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19 Plasterwork and panelling were expensive options. A wall painting was a cheaper alternative. Many of these have not survived: the damp English climate is not good for them and they were in any case intended to be used in the way we use wallpaper, as a rather temporary form of decoration. When the paintings got a bit shabby or out of date, they were often painted over. Fortunately enough have survived to give an impression of what a painted room of the time looked like. Rooms were painted freehand and with stencils, or sometimes with a mixture of both.
Thanks as usual to Margaret Peach for editing and making comments in her own inimitable style. Last but not least, thanks to Malcolm and Moira Lewin, and Janet and Keith Waldock for chocolate, gin and sympathy. Introduction The sixteenth century in England was an age of change. The government became more centralised and powerful, changing the way the bureaucracy worked and the way the aristocracy behaved. The cultural changes of the Renaissance and the politics of the time became entwined so that the Church, the bedrock of medieval society, was weakened by the dissolution of the monasteries and by the religious tensions which eventually split the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches.
13 Over time the wisdom of these ancients had come to be seen rather in the light of divine revelation, that is to say, something which was not to be questioned, but merely accepted. Now people began to question, but they had to do so cautiously and with considerable tact if they wished to avoid punishment. A good case in point is the science of medicine. In the early sixteenth century medicine was taught as a purely academic subject. The Tudors believed that everything was made up of the four elements of earth, air, fire and water.