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Authors: Elizabeth Fremantle
S | Favorite lady-in-waiting to Mary I. (Before 1510–1564) |
T | Lord Thomas Seymour; younger son of Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. He was born in the Tower of London; according to Henry VIII’s will he should have been, after his older brother, Lord Beauchamp, the second in line to Elizabeth I, but the Queen questioned his legitimacy and anyway preferred the Stuart line. (1563–1600) |
U | Sir John Grey, brother of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and uncle of the Grey sisters, who, with his wife, Mary, guarded Katherine Grey when she was under house arrest at Pyrgo. He was sentenced to death for his involvement in Wyatt’s rebellion against Mary I, but was reprieved in exchange for his land and titles. He was rehabilitated under Elizabeth, who also gave him the royal palace at Pyrgo. Sir John again came under suspicion on the publication of “Club-foot” Hale’s tract, a pamphlet that demonstrated Katherine Grey and her offspring’s rights of succession, but fell ill and died before anything came of it. (c.1523–1564) |
Acknowledgments
So many people have helped in the creation of
Sisters of Treason
. First and foremost, I am lucky enough to have two exceptional editors, Sam Humphreys and Trish Todd, both of whom have helped me knock an unwieldy set of ideas into something approximating a novel; also Hana Osman, Stephanie Glencross, and Katie Green, whose collective editorial input and fine-tuning I couldn’t have managed without; my agent, Jane Gregory, who is one of the blessings I count daily, and Catherine Eccles, whose advice is sound as a bell. There are so many others whose unerring support makes my world as a writer turn: Liz Smith, Clare Parker, Maxine Hitchcock, Viviane Bassett, Chantal Noel, Francesca Russell, Merle Bennett, Anna Derkacz, Jessica Lawrence, and Andrea de Werd, to name but a few. I must also thank Lee Motley for her unparalleled cover designs, Trevor Horwood for his tact and insightful copy-editing, Deborah Dicks for her Latin expertise, Dr. D. M. Turner for pointing me in the direction of research on disability in Early Modern England, and Leanda de Lisle for writing the book that inspired
Sisters of Treason.
Further Reading
I am hugely indebted to Leanda de Lisle’s wonderful
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
, an exhaustive exploration of the three Grey sisters, which provided the initial inspiration for
Sisters of Treason
and is a must-read for anyone who seeks to dig a little deeper into the lives of Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey. Other invaluable works have been Anna Whitelock’s
Mary Tudor
and
Elizabeth’s Bedfellows
, both of which illuminate those two Tudor queens, bringing them into vivid life; Sarah Gristwood’s captivating
Elizabeth & Leicester
helped me understand that complex relationship between Queen and favorite; and Alison Weir’s
Elizabeth the Queen
gave me, in astonishing detail, a perspective on the politics of Elizabeth’s reign.
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Introduction
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