By Alison Weir
It is a brief, sharp shot of royal revenge. greater than 400 years in the past, seven humans - 5 of them girls - have been beheaded within the Tower of London. 3 were queens of britain. The others have been came across accountable of treason. Why have been such very important humans placed to dying? Alison Weir's gripping booklet tells their tales: from the previous good friend betrayed by means of a guy set on being king, to the younger woman killed after simply 9 days at the throne. Alison Weir is a superb storyteller. via her bright writing, Alison Weir brings heritage alive.
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The Dorsets wanted Jane to be well taught. Their hopes of her were high. As soon as she was four, they arranged for her to have a tutor and be drilled in her lessons. They meant to make her a fit wife for a king. Jane was a clever child, very bright and able. Much was asked of her, but she did well in her studies, and grew to love her teachers. Jane was a tiny girl, with fair, freckled skin and sandy red hair. She was plain rather than pretty, but that did not matter too much, because she was royal.
Lady Rochford was one of these who had served the Queen. She was the widow of Anne Boleyn’s brother; it was she who had accused her husband and his sister of incest. Now she aided Katherine’s affair with Culpeper, keeping watch when they met in secret. When Henry took Katherine on a long journey to the north of England in the autumn of 1541, the lovers met as often as they could, even in a privy. Katherine would always ‘seek for the back doors and the back stairs herself’. Once, when the King came to sleep with his wife, he was kept waiting outside her door while Lady Rochford got rid of Culpeper.
Wrapped in a black blanket, she was buried near her cousin, Anne Boleyn, in the Tower chapel. Chapter Five Jane Parker, Lady Rochford (1542) - The ‘Wicked Wife’ The claim that incest had taken place between Anne Boleyn and her brother, Lord Rochford, was said to have been made by his own wife, Jane, Lady Rochford. She helped bring to ruin not only her husband and his sister, but also Katherine Howard. Hers is one of the darker tales of the traitors of the Tower. Jane Parker was the daughter of Henry, Lord Morley; her mother was a distant cousin of the King.