Had it not been her turn to wait upon the queen, charged with handing her the royal washing water and supervising the chamberers and other lesser ladies who helped Her Grace dress, she’d have stayed in bed for at least another hour herself. It was no consolation at all that George had been oblige...
I need not have worried about being included among them. The concubine took with her almost every female in her household and added a sprinkling of noble ladies-in-waiting to augment her consequence. En route to Dover, we spent one night at Stone Manor in Kent, another at Shurland on the Isle of ...