The sisters of Lady Jane Grey and their wicked grandfather; being the true stories of the strange lives of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and of the ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters of Lady Jane Grey, "the nine-days' queen," . what too small for the breadth of a very largeface. In youth and early manhood, owing to thebrilliancy of their pink-and-white complexions,they were universally considered extremelyhandsome, but with the advent of years theybecame abnormally stout, and vainly tried toconceal their fat, wide cheeks, and double chins,with beards and whiskers. A French chronicler,
The sisters of Lady Jane Grey and their wicked grandfather; being the true stories of the strange lives of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk, and of the ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, sisters of Lady Jane Grey, "the nine-days' queen," . what too small for the breadth of a very largeface. In youth and early manhood, owing to thebrilliancy of their pink-and-white complexions,they were universally considered extremelyhandsome, but with the advent of years theybecame abnormally stout, and vainly tried toconceal their fat, wide cheeks, and double chins,with beards and whiskers. A French chronicler,speaking of Charles Brandon at the time that hewas in Paris for the marriage of Mary Tudor toLouis XII, says he had never seen so handsome aman, or one of such manly power who possessed sodelicate a complexion—;os^ et hlanc tout commeune fille. And yet he was not the least effemi-nate, for of all the men of his day, he was themost splendid sportsman, the most skilful in thetilt-yard, and the surest with the arrow. Hedanced so Hghtly and so gracefully that tosee him was a sight in which even Henry VIII,himself an elegant dancer, delighted. Unfortunately, so many physical advantageswere not allied to an equal number of virtues;4. {^To face p. 4CHARLES BRANDON, DUKE OF SUFFOLK{From a)i engraving; after the original in the collection ofHis firace the Duke of Bedford) Cloth of Frieze and here again, the resemblance between KingHenry and his bosom friend is were equally cruel, selfish and unscrupulous,and both entertained the same loose ideas as tothe sanctity of marriage—-with this difference,however, that whereas King Henry usually di-vorced one wife before he took another, Charleshad two wives living at one and the same time,from neither of whom was he properly divorced !What is most singular, too, is that he ventured tomarry the kings sister whilst his first wife wasstill living, and not as yet legally separated fromhim, whereby he might easily have been ha
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