My Story: Lady Jane Grey (My Royal Story) by Sue Reid

Author:Sue Reid [Reid, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2012-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

15 October 1551

Court

The King has returned to Westminster. He has urgent business to attend to, Father says. Whatever it is Father is in a very good mood – as is Mother!

17 October 1551

Dorset Place

The Duke of Somerset has been arrested and taken to the Tower. Sitting here, in a corner of the nursery, I am trying not to think about what Elizabeth Tilney told me. But it is hard to order my thoughts. It is so noisy! Downstairs servants are wrapping paintings and valuables in cloths, and heaving turkey carpets and furniture into carts drawn up in the courtyard outside. At least I do not need to conceal what I am writing, for everyone is too busy to bother with me. Nurse banished me from my chamber so that she could pack in peace. And Katherine and Mary are hanging over the staircase watching the activity below. Our steward has been kept busy for days while Mother decides what to take and what to leave behind. We are moving into our new home, Suffolk Place.

Tramp. Tramp tramp. Feet march in and out of the house. As I listen I fancy I hear the tramp of the guards’ boots as they marched down the long corridors at Whitehall.

What did the Duke feel when he realized that the guards had come for him? One by one the plotters are being rounded up. The Duke after he had dined, Master Lawrence Hammond (who I do not know) at a shooting match and Sir Thomas Palmer as he strolled on the terrace in the autumn sunshine.

The Duke must have known that such a thing would happen soon – whether or not he did plot to assassinate the Duke of Northumberland – and neither Elizabeth Tilney nor I think he did. It is a trumped-up excuse to get the Duke of Somerset and his allies out of Northumberland’s way. Is this the urgent business that has brought the King back to Westminster?

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