She was buried in her mother's tomb in the Abbey, where her grave is still unmarked. The Grey sisters derived their claim to the English throne through their Tudor maternal grandmother. After her death, according to the terms of Henry VIII's will, the chief claimant became Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby, the only surviving child of Eleanor Brandon, second daughter of Henry VIII's younger sister, Mary Tudor.[25]. Copyright © 2004 - 2018 www.englishmonarchs.co.uk All rights reserved ®. Her reputation ruined, Katherine spent the rest of her short life under arrest, eventually dying at the age of just 28. [21], Mary did not stay long at Beaumanor. Frances Goldwell was no fool either, and she sort of lurked around a wall, just slightly peeking in, so as to only vaguely witness the whole thing in hopes that she wouldn’t get punished, either. Mary took the precaution of having three of her cousins attend as witnesses, her childhood friend, Mary Willoughby and two of the daughters of Lady Stafford. Apart from all the inheritance disputes, I feel badly for these women trying to construct a positive and strong image with such flat portraiture. Despite the disastrous consequences of her sister Katherine's secret marriage, Mary, too, married without the Queen's permission. And? On 16 July 1565,[8] while the Queen was absent attending the marriage of her kinsman, Sir Henry Knollys[9] (d. 21 December 1582), and Margaret Cave, the daughter of Sir Ambrose Cave,[10] Mary secretly married the Queen's serjeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of Richard Keyes, esquire, of East Greenwich, Kent, by Agnes Saunders, the daughter of Henry Saunders of Ewell, Surrey. On 16 July 1565, Mary secretly wed the Queen's serjeant porter, Thomas Keyes, son of Richard Keyes, esquire, of East Greenwich, Kent. I love reading your take on it as it makes their stories (history) come to life. And even though Mary and Keyes’s love was the truest to ever live, they’d both had shitty enough experiences in jail that neither was willing to risk a daring escape to try and reunite at this point. Mary was therefore sent, in June 1569, to live with Sir Thomas Gresham at his house in Bishopsgate and later at his country house at Osterley. Since Katherine Grey's two sons had been declared illegitimate, even the Queen had to take seriously Mary's position as heiress presumptive to the English throne. The Queen confined Mary to house arrest with William Hawtrey (d.1597) at Chequers in Buckinghamshire, where she remained for two years, while Keyes was committed to the Fleet. Mary Grey’s life was upended when she was just eight years old, and she spent much of the rest of her life striving to improve things for herself. This was a big deal! [24], In spite of the intrigues involving her sisters, it does not appear that Mary Grey ever made a serious claim to the throne. Without much of Mary’s personal correspondence to guide us, it’s tempting to think that she may have used others’ preconceptions of her intelligence against them. She left her mother's jewels to her step-grandmother, the Duchess of Suffolk, gifts of plate to Lady Arundell and to Adrian Stokes' wife, and money to her godchild, Mary Merrick, granddaughter of her late husband, Thomas Keyes. What a shitty situation. However, for the time being Mary had no friends to take her in, and insufficient income to live independently. Until she did, though, Lady Katherine Grey was her heir apparent (because Elizabeth was still technically illegitimate). By February 1573 she was established in a house of her own in London in St Botolph's Without Aldgate, and by the end of 1577 had been rehabilitated to the extent that she was appointed one of the Queen's Maids of Honour. With Katherine Grey's death Mary was brought to relative prominence as the last surviving grandchild of Mary Tudor. Even so, Keyes brought gifts to Mary Grey, courting her in the sweetest most adorable of ways, and Mary Grey couldn’t help herself.

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