Thomas Howard fourth Duke of Norfolk

Scholars have speculated, so far fruitlessly, as to her religious allegiance, whether Catholic or Protestant: she gives no indication. The Howard family on which she depended were known as leaders in the community of the...

To their eldest son his father had written from his imprisonment in the Tower of London: Tom, you have ever from your infancy been given to be stubborn.

In a prologue MD jokes about her own daring to judge Queen Elizabeth. Her language is formal and stilted, but she has a strong dramatic grasp of the complex and shifting feelings of Mary and...

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MT worked in some capacity in the powerful and influential Howard family, whose proximity to the crown repeatedly landed them in trouble under the Tudors. Her dedicatee, Thomas Howard , later became Lord Thomas, the...