I wonder what exactly it means by "some difficulty and resistance "? Maybe she figured she had nothing to lose by throwing a huge, screaming, violent fit and fight. What a sad ordeal.
I read a book about Catherine Howard. She was only 15 when she married Henry VIII and very naive. She truly thought she was being sent to Syon House (a nunnery) as a kind of "time out" by Henry for punishment and that he would forgive her once he deemed she'd been punished enough. She assumed that she would resume the mantle of queenhood after her stay. When her uncle read the Bill of Attainder to her, she giggled and admitted to all of it, asked for forgiveness, thinking that's all it would take to get back into Henry's good graces. But once she saw that she was being escorted to the Tower of London, she knew she was going to die. THAT stupid she wasn't. Everyone during that period knew that no one every came out alive from that tower. I think it was at that time she realized she would die and was frightened. Poor girl.
That is so sad. I wondered if she thought it would eventually just go away and she would get back to whatever her normal was. You are right...poor girl.
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I wonder what exactly it means by "some difficulty and resistance "? Maybe she figured she had nothing to lose by throwing a huge, screaming, violent fit and fight. What a sad ordeal.
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