Amazon.co.uk<\/b><\/a> <\/p>\n Thank you to David for answering my questions.<\/p>\n Why did you choose to write about Katherine Willoughby? <\/b><\/I><\/p>\n I wanted a subject who had led an interesting life, a life that people would want to read about, but who had not been \u2018done to death\u2019 already. Katherine Willoughby fitted this perfectly.<\/p>\n Do you think that that the sitter in the \u00be length \u2018Grimsthorpe portrait\u2019 is Katherine or Lady Jane Grey? <\/b><\/I><\/p>\n This is difficult because we have no authenticated portrait of Jane. All we can say in that the lady in the Grimsthorpe portrait closely resembles Katherine \u2013 note especially the similarity in the bone structure of the face and the eyes, nose and mouth.<\/p>\n Although they later differed in religion, do you think that Katherine inherited any traits from her Spanish mother?<\/b><\/I><\/p>\n Katherine\u2019s mother, Maria de Salinas was a woman who did not take no for an answer \u2013 for example, when she undertook an arduous journey to visit Catherine of Aragon and then bluffed her way into the dying Queen\u2019s bedchamber in direct contravention of Henry VIII\u2019s orders. It would not be surprising if some of her daughter\u2019s feistiness was inherited from her.<\/p>\n Is there any evidence of Katherine visiting her step-granddaughter, Jane Grey?<\/b><\/I><\/p>\n The evidence is inevitably patchy, but Katherine certainly spent the Christmas of 1551 with the Greys and, it is reasonable to assume, would have been a regular guest at Bradgate. She had known Frances, Jane\u2019s mother, who was about two years her senior, since she had lived at Westhorpe (Suffolk) as Charles Brandon\u2019s ward<\/p>\n Do you think Edward VI or John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland was the instigator of the \u2018Devise for the Succession\u2019? <\/b><\/I><\/p>\n If only we knew! My sense is that Northumberland was the guiding hand, but Edward was the willing tool.<\/p>\n Why was Katherine not arrested for her religious beliefs during the reign of Mary I and do you think she was allowed to escape abroad?<\/b><\/I><\/p>\n Katherine had been on good terms with Mary when they were both Roman Catholics, and Mary doubtless still appreciated Katherine\u2019s mother\u2019s devotion to hers. Undoubtedly, she could have been arrested along with other leading Protestants, but perhaps allowing her to escape into exile spared Mary a still more difficult choice.. <\/p>\n How did Katherine react to becoming her step-granddaughter, Mary Grey\u2019s custodian in 1567?<\/b><\/I><\/p>\n Not very well, unfortunately. She complained bitterly that Mary was ill-provided for, and feared that she was being \u2018put-upon\u2019 when others should have shouldered the burden. There was no permanent estrangement however \u2013 Mary left her step-grandmother her mother\u2019s bracelets and a \u2018mystic ruby\u2019 thought to have magical properties, in her will.<\/p>\n You describe how Katherine wrote many letters to William Cecil over the years. Do you have a favourite quote from these? <\/b><\/I><\/p>\n Katherine was given to speaking her mind, and sometimes felt that she had gone too far and said too much. In one letter to Cecil she had to apologise for her \u2018foolish choler and brawling\u2019, begging his \u2018forgiveness on my knees\u2019, and Richard Morrison, the English ambassador to the Court of the Emperor Charles V remarked on her \u2018heats\u2019, regretting that \u2018so goodly a wit waiteth on so froward a will\u2019.<\/p>\n David Baldwin is the author of ‘Henry VIII’s Last Love: The Extraordinary Life of Katherine Willoughby, Lady-in-Waiting to the Tudors’, ‘Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower’, ‘Richard III’ and ‘The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of … Continue reading
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