Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton

Author:Lisa Hilton [Hilton, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2014-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

I do see so little proof of my travails by reason her Majesty alloweth not of them, that I have left all to the wide world. I do only keep on a course for show, but inwardly I meddle not, leaving things to run in a course as the clock is left when the barrel is wound up.

Elizabeth never forgave Katherine Grey. She and Hertford somehow contrived to get another son while both were imprisoned, but Elizabeth never even considered acknowledging the claim of Edward Seymour or his younger brother Thomas. Hertford was fined an astronomical £15,000, and remained in the Tower for nine years. Katherine was released after Thomas’s birth and for the last four years of her unhappy life was moved from custodian to custodian, dying of tuberculosis at twenty-seven in 1568 at Cockfield Hall in Suffolk, exacerbated by several years of self-starvation.

Hertford managed to rehabilitate himself in 1591, when he gave a three-day entertainment at Elvetham for the Queen that may have cost as much as his fine. Featuring poetry by John Lyly, three artificial islands, a specially constructed withdrawing room in the garden and a water pageant where Nereus, prophet of the sea, delivered a speech to ‘Fair Cynthia, the wide Ocean’s Empress’ as a warship with a cargo of jewels sailed towards the Queen, a banquet off a thousand pieces of plate, a fireworks display and a fairytale castle with the royal arms all built in sugar, Hertford’s effort achieved the remark, as Elizabeth departed, that ‘hereafter he should find the reward thereof in her especial favour’. Even after thirty years of disgrace, Hertford couldn’t resist a subtle dig at Elizabeth’s own lack of an heir. As the elderly Queen rode through the park towards the house, to the sound of verses proclaiming her ‘a great Goddess whose beams do sprinkle heaven with unacquainted light’, six virgins carried blocks away from her horse’s path. The barriers had supposedly been laid by ‘Envie’.

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