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Copyright © 2010 by Kathy Lynn Emerson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Emerson, Kate.

Secrets of the Tudor court: between two queens / Kate Emerson.—1st Pocket Books

trade paperback ed.

p. cm.

1. Henry VIII, King of England, 1491–1547—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—Kings and

rulers—Paramours—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—Court and courtiers—Fiction. I. Title.

II. Title: Between two queens.

PS3555.M414S425          2009

813' .54—dc22

2009022622

ISBN 978-1-4165-8327-1

ISBN 978-1-4165-8359-2 (ebook)



To Kathy Sagan










Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Epilogue—1554

A Note From the Author

A Who’s Who of the Tudor Court 1537–1543

Readers Club Guide


Her Grace made grant to have one of your daughters; and the matter is thus concluded that your ladyship shall send them both over, for Her Grace will first see them and know their manners, fashions and conditions, and take which of them shall like Her Grace best; and they must be sent over about six weeks hence, and your ladyship shall not need too much cost on them till time you know which of them Her Grace will have. But two honest changes they must have, the one of satin, the other of damask. And at their coming the one shall be in my Lady of Rutland’s chamber and the other in my Lady Sussex’s chamber; and once known which the Queen will have, the other to be with the Duchess of Suffolk, and then to be apparelled according to their degrees. But madam, the Queen will be at no more cost with her but wages and livery, and so I am commanded to write unto your ladyship.