The Queen’s Fool

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I also like the fact that since the story is told from the POV of a servant, we get a total picture of life in Tudor England and English Calais before it was retaken by the French. life happened and despite the fact that it sat on a table right in front of me for that long, it’s taken me until now to pick it up and start reading it. Hannah is adopted by the glamorous Robert Dudley, the charismatic son of King Edward’s protector, who brings her to court as a “holy fool” for Queen Mary and, ultimately, Queen Elizabeth. I think I was waiting until she finished more so I wouldn’t have to wait for years in between books and kind of forgot about it. Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, Jane, The Queen's Fool, "Jeanne le Fol" or "Jane Hir Fole" ( fl.

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Today, entertainers sometimes perform as "Jane" in Renaissance-themed entertainments such as Renaissance faires. The last 150 pages of the story were fine but wading through her early teenage foolishness, given the baggage you loaded her with, was sometimes a trial.

Jane was a well-liked jester at the court of Catherine Parr, where she is mentioned by name as "Jane Foole" in 1543. I loved the main characters instantly and followed thetwists and turns of their compelling story with avid attention.

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It is known that Jane and Will Sommers often performed together, dressed in matching outfits: they are noted to have done so in 1555. She may have been depicted in the painting of Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545), in which the man on the far right is identified as her colleague, court jester William Sommers.

She is constantly in danger, is told to keep her head low to avoid attracting the wrong sort of notice, knows that if she is discovered as a Jew or even thought of as a heretic Protestant Christian once the fires begin to burn at Smithfield she could bring death to her father, her betrothed and his family. That I can speak freely and not fear being hauled away in the night to torture and interrogation before being burned alive — all in the effort to “save my soul. A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. John Nichols, llustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), pp.

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Anne Boleyn was portrayed as an evil incestuous witch in The Other Boleyn Girl, and nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, I’ve read Lymond’s books and started collecting the other series (set in Italy, 14th C I think?Mary gave gilt silver salts as rewards to two women who looked after her, a Mistress Ayer and a woman from Bury St Edmunds who healed her.