House of Shadows (2015)
“Elizabeth did not recall appointing her as one of her ladies but this was not surprising. Mistress Carpenter was the niece of very old friends and they would have assumed, as people did, that it was perfectly acceptable for Margaret to take up a place at the Wassenaer Hof. People assumed much. They had done so since Elizabeth’s earliest days in Heidelberg, and she had always been too generous, too eager to please, to disabuse them.
She could remember vividly the days when she was first married ...and Colonel Schomberg, her steward, had stalked through her chambers at the castle, barking at the footmen to stand up straight and stop flirting with the maids, exhorting Elizabeth to be less profligate in her spending. Poor Schomberg. He had gone to his grave telling her it was better to be feared and respected than to be loved. She had tried, oh how she had tried, to follow his strictures, but in the end she would always give too much away, whether it was money, jewels, or her patronage.
Margaret’s arrival had coincided with the return of William Craven from England.MoreLess
She could remember vividly the days when she was first married ...and Colonel Schomberg, her steward, had stalked through her chambers at the castle, barking at the footmen to stand up straight and stop flirting with the maids, exhorting Elizabeth to be less profligate in her spending. Poor Schomberg. He had gone to his grave telling her it was better to be feared and respected than to be loved. She had tried, oh how she had tried, to follow his strictures, but in the end she would always give too much away, whether it was money, jewels, or her patronage.
Margaret’s arrival had coincided with the return of William Craven from England.MoreLess
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