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Today is the 461st Anniversary of the triple wedding at Durham House. In \u2018Elizabeth Fremantle\u2019s \u2018Sisters of Treason\u2019, Katherine Grey remembers her wedding\u2026<\/p>\n
\u2018I was married in this spot exactly,\u2019 I say to Jane Dormer.<\/p>\n
From the instant I walked into Durham House on the Strand, my mind was flooded with memories of the day, six years ago, that I was wed alongside my sister Jane, and Katherine Dudley too, all of us in borrowed dresses, so hastily had it been organized.<\/p>\n
\u2026The chapel smells sweet, the incense seems to have got into the very stones, and I have a vision of my sister murmuring out her vows in a cloud of perfumed smoke, Guildford Dudley taking her right hand and she snatching it back, pressing it up against her left in prayer, eyes firmly shut.\u2019 (p184-185, Sisters of Treason) (c) Penguin<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is the 461st Anniversary of the triple wedding at Durham House. In \u2018Elizabeth Fremantle\u2019s \u2018Sisters of Treason\u2019, Katherine Grey remembers her wedding\u2026 \u2018I was married in this spot exactly,\u2019 I say to Jane Dormer. From the instant I walked … Continue reading