The Temptation Of Elizabeth Tudor - Plot & Excerpts
One day, speaking to William Sharington in the company of his serving man Pigot, he whispered that ‘I will wear black for this twelvemonth. After that I know where to have a wife’.1 And at that moment, she was living at Cheshunt. On 7 September 1548, Princess Elizabeth celebrated her fifteenth birthday. She was still weak with sickness, and her condition, combined with the queen’s death, meant that no one felt like celebrating. Yet it was another step towards womanhood. She was already a year past what was considered to be a marriageable age. Girls she knew from her childhood were married and had become mothers already. As the princess’s health started to improve over the autumn, she began to discuss the possibility of moving to a house of her own. Thomas retained his close interest in Elizabeth. The idea of her leaving the Dennys’ supervision appealed, but the expense of such a move was high, since the princess would require additional servants and furnishings. Elizabeth had independent means, but Thomas was keen for her to reduce her household charges, perhaps reasoning that he already had a household of servants fit for a royal woman.
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