The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle

Author:Leanda de Lisle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007351701
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing

Stokes could not have imagined how Frances’s reputation would be traduced in centuries to come; and nor could her daughters. Mary Grey was comforted in her loss by the extended family with whom she would always remain close: friends such as Margaret Willoughby, whom Frances had taken under her wing in the terrible months after her husband and daughter were executed. Katherine, of course, had Hertford, but their hopes of marriage in the immediate future had been buried with Frances. Sometime that winter, while Katherine was still wearing mourning, Hertford wrote a verse describing his feelings about their situation. He compared his pain to that of the Greek classical hero Troilus, who was kept apart from his lover Cressida by political imperatives, as they were:

She stood in black said Troylus he, That with her look hath wounded me. She stood in black say I also That with her eye, hath bred my woe.12

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