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Well duh, obviously the Queen wants to be regent in full. Not sure why this is a surprise to her supporters.
I do hope the king is captured, and York takes rhe crown and kills the bustard. And the kid as well.
They would have to be astute enough to recognize it rather than being sycophants out only for themselves.
Margaret betrays Henry, and that was always inevitable - she is far too ambitious.
It's a shame that Henry has forgotten that Margaret's son is not his son and has no right to the throne...
I don't consider that Henry knows that the Prince is not his. He merely has held suspicion from time to time and we see how often he forgets or misremembers.
Will this cause people to abandon the Lancastrians? After all... things would be very bad for them if word of this gets out.
Margaret isn't exactly a godly woman either. That must be why she doesn't have any Church support.
It's more internal rather than external so few would find out about it. Notice that she even tells Booth that she is not wishing for a defeat. She is only considering possibilities and these things change rapidly as we move forward.
Someone should be bothered by it. If you share grand parents and great grandparents to the point you are cousins from two directions then it's too close.
I admit that even in this time when royal families intermingled so much, the case in Castile and Portugal is indeed a bridge of consanguinity too far. Yet the Pope did sign off on it.
Wise advice from Kurtie as always.
Patience, francophobe, patience.
Alfonso is not quite as stupid as he first appeared. York will need to do something before he makes such requests, though perhaps it may act as a spur for him to indeed start doing something.
The scene is sort of a mirror to another coming soonish. The point being there is a difference between hope and fact. If one wishes to treat with a King, they need to BE the King and not someone wishing for it. Much like what will come, this King of Castile (through his ambassador) is only interested in dealing with the real power in England and not someone pretending to be such. Indeed, York will have to get off his ass to seal this deal.
And so to the Queen and her absolutely shocking to nobody betrayal of the King. I say betrayal, she betrayed him years ago with her affairs and lying about his child, this is now moving onto actually trying to get him killed. What she has seemingly not considered is what if he is captured? Why would anyone stay with her cause after that.
I have to admit that her turn at the end even took me by surprise. The scene was actually a rather difficult one to write. It was not making much sense to me that Henry all of the sudden decided to take up the fight (though here he is not really looking to fight but talk once again.) In fact, this whole time of beefing up power in Kenilworth up to now has seemed out of character for such a meek King. I can only explain it as his advisors pulled him to this place and he is sort of acting out of reaction than proaction. Margaret would naturally want to fight and destroy Warwick et al, but as the scene continued it began to make sense that she might instead realize the folly in that and move to at least protect herself. To me, that is her first order motivation.
I'm not sure I did it entirely well, but those little moments where she is suddenly sweet to Henry, looking over Wiltshire's shoulder or holding to the door before opening it are moments where the gears are moving swiftly in her head. Say what you will about her (and there is much to be said) but I do not consider Margaret stupid. Foolish, mayhap, but not unintelligent.
To all - As mentioned before, the action coming up is one of the benchmarks in the story. The lead up was intricate which required covering each step but now it is upon us and the next chapter covers a very short period of time. I felt I had to focus on many smaller parts. Thus, the scenes are shorter and the actions overlap each other. For that reason, I am going to do something a little different and beg your forgiveness beforehand. I plan on posting a scene a day for ten days as the chapter plays out and then I will return to the normal pace of once every few days. I understand if you cannot keep up, but it should all be read closely together. Thank you in advance.
And here we go...
