While I don't always l Iike the outcome here; I love the challenges presented by them. It forces me to adapt, just like in real life.
What Mistress Boleyn Wants (Mistress Boleyn Gets)
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I rolled on the girls I found, but the GD do not want Marie's son to deviate from OTL. Asked too soon. However, the newly-widowed Duke of Northumberland needs a new wife. [He's got, I believe - I'm too lazy to go get the folder - only one son left.]
I've been down with a migraine for what seems FOREVER. Had one day of peace and now the bastard is back!!!!
I'm trying to figure out who poor Algernon should wed. The wedding wiil be between six and eighteen months after his wife's death. I'm just thinking in a post. Haven't rolled the Dice on anything.
Algernon will have his 25th birthday in 1550. [It seems like he should older, ya know?
I've idly thought about Lady Christina Gray [OTL Jane]; she will be 12 in October. (I can hear ya'll "eeewwwwing" from here, shush your mouths, we're in the middle of the 16th century, remember. Her mother Frances, eldest daughter of the Duke of Suffolk is married to Henry, 3rd Marquess of Dorset and both are very ambitious.
I was going to put up a couple of others up and dicuss their pros and cons, but it's taken nearly hour for this last paragraph. The meds are kicking! I'm happy.
If anyone with ideas can post others [marriage date change or the marriage forgone, death postponed - or, in th e case of an inconvenient hubby, brought forward.]
Post here or pm me. Post here would probably be best.
I'm trying to figure out who poor Algernon should wed. The wedding wiil be between six and eighteen months after his wife's death. I'm just thinking in a post. Haven't rolled the Dice on anything.
Algernon will have his 25th birthday in 1550. [It seems like he should older, ya know?
I've idly thought about Lady Christina Gray [OTL Jane]; she will be 12 in October. (I can hear ya'll "eeewwwwing" from here, shush your mouths, we're in the middle of the 16th century, remember. Her mother Frances, eldest daughter of the Duke of Suffolk is married to Henry, 3rd Marquess of Dorset and both are very ambitious.
I was going to put up a couple of others up and dicuss their pros and cons, but it's taken nearly hour for this last paragraph. The meds are kicking! I'm happy.
If anyone with ideas can post others [marriage date change or the marriage forgone, death postponed - or, in th e case of an inconvenient hubby, brought forward.]
Post here or pm me. Post here would probably be best.
Wait, what? The first thing I write is I'm having little respite from chronic migraines and I get LIKES?!? Yikes!
Not serious. Both vandevere & Ogrebear are faithful readers [and correcters of my errors. 🤭]
Not serious. Both vandevere & Ogrebear are faithful readers [and correcters of my errors. 🤭]
Random wandering on the internet have brought me the following possibilities for the next Duchess of Nothumberland:
1. Lady Christina [otl Jane] Grey, b. 12 Oct 1537 [she's young, but is the Henry IX's first cousin on his father's side & also Charles Brandon's granddaughter]
2. Elisabeth Brooke, b. 25 June 1526. [OTL she was a frisky lass, and married William Parr and popped out two children with him, all before his marriage to Anne Bourchier was dissolved]
3. Anne Basset b. 1520 [OTL she was the first Basset sister in service to a Queen - Jane]
4. Katherine Basset b. 1522
5. Jane Radcliffe b. 1532
6. Magdalen Dacre b. 1538 [Not quite street legal, but will be if Algernon takes a full year of morning.]
What'd ya think 🤔? Feel free to add your two cents or pence. Or come up with others.
The Gaming Dice are waiting.
1. Lady Christina [otl Jane] Grey, b. 12 Oct 1537 [she's young, but is the Henry IX's first cousin on his father's side & also Charles Brandon's granddaughter]
2. Elisabeth Brooke, b. 25 June 1526. [OTL she was a frisky lass, and married William Parr and popped out two children with him, all before his marriage to Anne Bourchier was dissolved]
3. Anne Basset b. 1520 [OTL she was the first Basset sister in service to a Queen - Jane]
4. Katherine Basset b. 1522
5. Jane Radcliffe b. 1532
6. Magdalen Dacre b. 1538 [Not quite street legal, but will be if Algernon takes a full year of morning.]
What'd ya think 🤔? Feel free to add your two cents or pence. Or come up with others.
The Gaming Dice are waiting.
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And also rumored to be Henry VIII's lover.....she would be likely the most beautiful one on the list
I mean, Elisabeth Brooke is a comfortable age, without being much older, unlike Anne Bassett,and she clearly brings the option of scandal with her.... She's my pick!
Remember, it will likely be Anne herself doing the vetting and tradionally [even now] women are the harshest judges of other women.
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Oh! I got a set of tarot cards to figure out how they work and I'm gonna see in they can be used a la the Gaming Dice. [Next comes runes, then possibly I Ching, one new thing to research & learn at a time!]