The Queene's Cure (2002)
The Queene's Cure
“'Tis as rotten as arotten post.
NICHOLAS CULPEPERThe English Physician THESE EVENTS HAVE TOSSED ME TOPSY-TURVY, Cecil,” the queen admitted. “I thought my next trip must be to Chelsea, but this is of a sudden more important. And I swore once that I would never be rowed to the Tower again, but here I am, of dire necessity,” she groused, shaking her head. “Still, I am not going to enter through that damned water gate!”
Knowing full well that that entry was traditionally called Traitor's Gate, ...Cecil shifted on the bench next to her. Through early morning mist, they had set out from Whitehall in a plain working barge, though six of her regular men-at-oars and four guards were aboard in civilian garb. The queen and her principal secretary sat under a three-sided, roofed canvas canopy, partly to seek shelter from the wind and partly so that others on the bank or in river craft would not recognize them.
“I quite understand, Your Grace,” Cecil assured her. “Those were not good days for any of us when your sister sent you there.”MoreLess
NICHOLAS CULPEPERThe English Physician THESE EVENTS HAVE TOSSED ME TOPSY-TURVY, Cecil,” the queen admitted. “I thought my next trip must be to Chelsea, but this is of a sudden more important. And I swore once that I would never be rowed to the Tower again, but here I am, of dire necessity,” she groused, shaking her head. “Still, I am not going to enter through that damned water gate!”
Knowing full well that that entry was traditionally called Traitor's Gate, ...Cecil shifted on the bench next to her. Through early morning mist, they had set out from Whitehall in a plain working barge, though six of her regular men-at-oars and four guards were aboard in civilian garb. The queen and her principal secretary sat under a three-sided, roofed canvas canopy, partly to seek shelter from the wind and partly so that others on the bank or in river craft would not recognize them.
“I quite understand, Your Grace,” Cecil assured her. “Those were not good days for any of us when your sister sent you there.”MoreLess
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