The King's Damsel
““That cannot be true,” I objected when Edyth told me what the lower servants were saying.
“As sure as God’s in Gloucester,” she vowed. Edyth had been making great strides in her attempts to mimic the gentry, but she slipped into an odd mixture of dialect and more refined speech when she was excited. “The truth comed out to do with she—Mistress Anne Boleyn. Rose—”
“Mistress Anne’s tiring maid?” I interrupted.
Edyth nodded. “Happen the king doan’t bed his wife. Not for years.”
“What does that hav...e to do with anything?”
“Mistresses,” Edyth said succinctly.
“It is no great secret that a man may take mistresses. That does not mean the king intends to marry one of them. Or anyone else, either. You must not repeat such things, Edyth, not even to me. Why, as it concerns the king, such talk is dangerous. Do you want to be accused of treason?”
A mutinous look on her face, Edyth subsided, but what she’d already told me was enough to cause me concern. It was true that Queen Catherine was past her childbearing years, and that there was no son to inherit the throne.MoreLess
“As sure as God’s in Gloucester,” she vowed. Edyth had been making great strides in her attempts to mimic the gentry, but she slipped into an odd mixture of dialect and more refined speech when she was excited. “The truth comed out to do with she—Mistress Anne Boleyn. Rose—”
“Mistress Anne’s tiring maid?” I interrupted.
Edyth nodded. “Happen the king doan’t bed his wife. Not for years.”
“What does that hav...e to do with anything?”
“Mistresses,” Edyth said succinctly.
“It is no great secret that a man may take mistresses. That does not mean the king intends to marry one of them. Or anyone else, either. You must not repeat such things, Edyth, not even to me. Why, as it concerns the king, such talk is dangerous. Do you want to be accused of treason?”
A mutinous look on her face, Edyth subsided, but what she’d already told me was enough to cause me concern. It was true that Queen Catherine was past her childbearing years, and that there was no son to inherit the throne.MoreLess
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