To Kill A Queen by Valerie Wilding

Author:Valerie Wilding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2013-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

23rd June 1585

I feel cross that I had to ask for Edmund to visit me. But he came as soon as he could, and we had a happy afternoon playing cards. I told him I think Father is a spy, and he laughed.

“Your daydreams get sillier and sillier, Kitty!”

I’ve only myself to blame for that remark. In the past I have shared my daydreams with Edmund, and now I wish I hadn’t.

25th June 1585

Today I was finally allowed out for a walk. I took Beeba, George and Pawpaw to the Tower, to give Aunt Frances some of Mother’s gooseberry preserves. We’ve too much from last year, and the gooseberries will soon be ripening again.

While we were there, a Yeoman Warder came and asked Uncle William to attend a prisoner urgently. When my uncle returned, he sat down heavily and told Aunt Frances, “Sir Henry Percy’s dead. Killed himself. Three shots in the chest.”

“Shh, William.” She indicated the children playing marbles on the floor. “Why?”

“He was accused of plotting against the Queen,” he whispered, but I heard because I moved closer. “If he’d been executed, all his lands and titles would have been given to the Crown.”

“The Queen, you mean?”

“In a way. They wouldn’t be hers, personally – she’d have to pass them on to whoever becomes king or queen after her. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. Percy cheated the law by killing himself first.”

It’s a dangerous business, wishing harm on Her Majesty. Now I’m hot and bothered, because hearing of plots and conspiracies stirs my fears.

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