The Queen’s Fool

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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.

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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. Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, Jane, The Queen's Fool, "Jeanne le Fol" or "Jane Hir Fole" ( fl.

Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, is forced to flee Spain with her father. One who went from beloved daughter to reviled bastard, who saw her devoted mother cast aside, who nearly lost her throne after years of waiting for her chance yet who showed her family’s courage in seizing what was hers from the upstarts who tried to wrest it from her. The history of the Tudors has always fascinated me and I spent many years reading various biographies of the principle players of the era. Anne Boleyn was portrayed as an evil incestuous witch in The Other Boleyn Girl, and nothing could be further from the truth. Beden the Fool also appears in related notes of the time, and it has been suggested that Beden was her surname.

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Queen Mary is so often presented as little more than a place holder before the glittering reign of her younger sister Elizabeth. John Nichols, llustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England (London, 1797), pp. She apparently had a favoured position with Mary and was given a valuable wardrobe and an unusually large number of shoes.Yes, I’ve read Lymond’s books and started collecting the other series (set in Italy, 14th C I think?

The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory - Dear Author REVIEW: The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory - Dear Author

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. This book is ideal to read as a class text and perfect for hot-seating and discussing empathy in upper KS2. Hired as a fool but working as a spy; promised in wedlock but in love with her master; endangered by the laws against heresy, treason, and witchcraft, Hannah must choose between the safe life of a commoner and the dangerous intrigues of the royal family that are inextricably bound up in her own yearnings and desires.When history talks about her it’s usually as a religious fanatic who turned most of England once and for all away from Catholicism. I absolutely LOVE Hannah and I think writing her as a Jewish girl instead of a Protestant was very clever.

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I loved the history in this book, for the most part I liked Hannah when she was relating what was happening around her but it ultimately ends up a B. Today, entertainers sometimes perform as "Jane" in Renaissance-themed entertainments such as Renaissance faires. She’s young (even though most girls of her age were often already married by age 14) and in the throws of a first love but after that, what she did often made little sense to me.Another long time reader who read romance novels in her teens, then took a long break before started back again about 25 years ago.