Mysterious Destiny Beckoning Corridors
Page 16
* * *
King Henry’s trusted advisors were in a position to take advantage of his jealousy, to secretly promote their own agenda. To do this, they went to where Henry and Katherine were staying at that time, to Hampton Court. They told Henry what they had learned of Katherine’s life before she came to the Palace. Because he trusted these men, he became very angry when he heard what they had to say.
Katherine was in the middle of a dancing lesson, when the guards came to get her. She was taken into a separate room where Henry’s close friend, and Archbishop of Canterbury, talked face to face with Katherine. Ultimately, he was trying to save her life by asking her to admit to the accusations that were against her. But Katherine knew that she had done nothing to be guilty of. She would not admit to something, a rumor no less, that she had not done. She would not dishonor her family, herself or her King in that way.
* * *
“Hampton Court wasn’t a court of law. It was, as I remember, one of Henry’s palaces in Surrey, England,” Julia said to herself.