The Queen's Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court
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Her paternal grandfather Sir John Shelton married Anne Boleyn’s aunt and was governor of Hatfield when Elizabeth was there as an infant; her uncle, Henry Parker, was later Elizabeth’s Chamberlain.3 The Queen was acutely conscious of the family links and enjoyed giving her relatives positions in the royal household. Following the deaths of Kat Ashley and Katherine Knollys, Mary Shelton’s appointment at court was doubtless a great comfort to Elizabeth.
There is no extant record of where the marria...ge of Mary Shelton and John Scudamore was celebrated, but it may well have taken place away from court, as they knew the Queen would disapprove. When Elizabeth found out Mary Shelton faced the full force of her wrath. Eleanor Brydges, a maid of honour at court wrote how, ‘the Queen hath used Mary Shelton very ill for her marriage: she hath dealt liberal both with blows and evil words, and hath not yet granted her consent’, and added, ‘no one ever bought her husband more dearly’.4 Some years later, when the story was told to Mary Queen of Scots by ‘Bess of Hardwick’ (the Countess of Shrewsbury) whose daughter Lady Mary Talbot was a close friend of Mary Shelton’s, Elizabeth was said to have broken Mary’s finger by hitting her with a hairbrush and then tried to blame the injury on a falling candlestick.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Her paternal grandfather Sir John Shelton married Anne Boleyn’s aunt and was governor of Hatfield when Elizabeth was there as an infant; her uncle, Henry Parker, was later Elizabeth’s Chamberlain.3 The Queen was acutely conscious of the family links and enjoyed giving her relatives positions in the royal household. Following the deaths of Kat Ashley and Katherine Knollys, Mary Shelton’s appointment at court was doubtless a great comfort to Elizabeth.
There is no extant record of where the marria...ge of Mary Shelton and John Scudamore was celebrated, but it may well have taken place away from court, as they knew the Queen would disapprove. When Elizabeth found out Mary Shelton faced the full force of her wrath. Eleanor Brydges, a maid of honour at court wrote how, ‘the Queen hath used Mary Shelton very ill for her marriage: she hath dealt liberal both with blows and evil words, and hath not yet granted her consent’, and added, ‘no one ever bought her husband more dearly’.4 Some years later, when the story was told to Mary Queen of Scots by ‘Bess of Hardwick’ (the Countess of Shrewsbury) whose daughter Lady Mary Talbot was a close friend of Mary Shelton’s, Elizabeth was said to have broken Mary’s finger by hitting her with a hairbrush and then tried to blame the injury on a falling candlestick.
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