Authors: Lady of the Knight
Tori Phillips (23 page)
I am deeply grateful to Deborah Staley of Maryville, Tennessee for her costume expertise in dressing Rosie and Andrew for the king’s feast. Also many thanks to Anne Turner of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC and to Betty MacKenzie, reference librarian at the Kings Park Library, Burke, VA for helping me research the Field of Cloth of Gold. I plead writer’s license for reversing two historical events for the sake of the story: King Henry’s feast actually took place on June 24th while the Mass in the tiltyard was on the 23rd. No, I didn’t make up the dragon fireworks. It really happened, though no one knows who ignited it.
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LADY OF THE KNIGHT
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