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o have made a habit of secret marriages,' Grant said dryly.
'Well, it must have been difficult for him, you know, when he came up against unassailable virtue. There was nothing for it but marriage. And he was so used to getting his own way with women ? what with his looks and his crown - that he couldn't have taken very resignedly to frustration.'
'Yes. That was the pattern of the Woodville marriage.
The indestructibly virtuous beauty with the gilt hair, and the secret wedding. So Edward had used the same F formula on a previous occasion, if Stillington's story was true. Was it true?'
'Well, in Edward's time, it seems, he was in turn both Privy Seal and Lord Chancellor, and he had been an ambassador to Brittany. So Edward either owed him something or liked him. And he, on his part, had no reason to cook up anything against Edward. Supposing he was the cooking sort.'
'No, I suppose not.'
'Anyway, the thing was put to Parliament, so we don't have to take just Stillington's word for it.'
'To Parliament!'
'Sure. Everything was open and above board. There was a very long meeting of the Lords of Westminster on the 9th. Stillington brought in his evi
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